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      One Swallow Brought Spring

      2001 1h 43m Drama List
      91% Tomatometer 44 Reviews 69% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Planning to retire, a goat farmer (Michel Serrault) sells his business to a computer expert (Mathilde Seigner) and shows her the ropes. Read More Read Less

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      Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune ... a realistic portrait of rural life. Rated: 3/4 Jun 14, 2007 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel Pokey and maybe a bit too sincere, but it has its own integrity. Rated: 3/5 Dec 26, 2003 Full Review Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing As the romanticized vision of quaint farm life melts away, The Girl From Paris eventually proves more meaningful and far more subtle than it first appears. Jan 29, 2020 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Rated: 4/5 Aug 23, 2008 Full Review Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press It's a small, simple movie, but, by the end, you feel like you've met two people you'd enjoy hanging with. Rated: 3/4 Jun 14, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The title translates to A Swallow Made in the Spring, but the American title is OK because people in the film keep referring to her that way. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Perhaps in real life this wd never happen, a Parisian girl abandoning her life for a life on the farm in Rhone Alps, but the story is touching and doesn't dwell on the city slicker in rural france theme. Michel Serrault gives a wonderful portrait of an old codger farmer who's perhapd too stuck in his ways to bend, but its precisely this that makes the relationship convincing and moving. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member well worth a watch for its honesty and integrity of two characters one positive and one negative.... read below Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review オスカル オ Un vieux paysan décide vendre sa ferme pour tout quitter. Une parisienne décide tout quitter pour se retrouver en l'achetant. Voilà la trame d'une histoire d'amitié entre deux personnes si differents que, finalement, ils se complètent à merveille. Ou pas? Elle est en quête d'une reconversion professionnelle à la campagne, mais elle ne reussit pas à trouver une reconversion personnelle, car elle reste désintéressée completement de tout relation serieuse avec des autres. Lui, par contre, il démontre une humanité plus proche de la notre. Il comprendre la rigueur du métier d'agriculteur et, de plus, la difficulté d'une vie en solitude dont il faut vivre de souvenirs. A la fin, on assimile que les deux sont des âmes solitaires mais pas vraiment similaires. Elle, à cause de sa propre nature. Lui, les circonstances lui rendre seul. Ensemble, ils nous permettent analyser un bon nombre des aspects de leur personnalités, et peut-être de la notre. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautiful on-location photography, warm-hearted story line, attractive central character (Mathilde Seigner--a dead ringer for U.S. soccer star pinup model Hope Solo!). I liked this movie. No way does it deserve the 90% critics rating it's somehow received here on RT though. Also the RT synopsis lays it on too thick, to the point of inaccuracy. There's no indication this woman was successful in "the big city" and yet fled to the farm life anyway. We know almost nothing of that city life. The filmmaker's actual intro is better, more visual: The gal is stuck in a traffic jam, sees a sign on the rear end of the bus ahead which extols the scenic beauty of the Rhone-Alps. Her decision to go become a farmer there is apparently very impulsive! It actually goes well but of course there are ups and downs... Blah, blah. Needs more tension, romance, twists and turns. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member quiet but beautiful movie. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Planning to retire, a goat farmer (Michel Serrault) sells his business to a computer expert (Mathilde Seigner) and shows her the ropes.
      Director
      Christian Carion
      Screenwriter
      Christian Carion, Eric Assous, Christian Carion, Eric Assous
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Runtime
      1h 43m
      Sound Mix
      Surround