A time-lapse credit sequence opens the picture, offering a split-screen, picture-postcard parade of the four seasons as they work their magic on a vineyard in the Burgundy region in France. What begins as a more straightforward Sideways soon blossoms into a Romance of the Land drama, aided and abetted byAlexis Kavyrchine’s breathtaking nature cinematography. And there’s a hint of documentary realism in Cédric Klapisch’s (When the Cat’s Away, L’auberge Espagnole) direction that, when savored, adds a note of naturalness to the story of three siblings (Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, and François Civil) whose father bequeaths them equal shares of the family vineyard. So long as the passion between the family and the land is kept at the forefront, there is much to enjoy. I would have been happy to watch the relationship between siblings ferment for two hours; instead, I got a third act rife with the ghost of dead Daddy and a final pressing of romance that yielded schmaltz (2017) — Scott Marks
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