Another “Sideways”

If you liked the wine-themed movie “Sideways, then perhaps you’ll enjoy the new French flick, “Saint Amour” coming out in March. The plot, somewhat similar to “Sideways”, depicts Gerard Depardieu and Belgian comedian/actor Benoît Poelvoorde as father and son cattle farmers. The son, more interested in wine than taking over the family cattle farm, embarks with his father on a tour of the wine regions of France in a taxi as an impromptu, bonding exercise. Depardieu, who actually has stakes in several wine operations in France’s Loire Valley, Bordeaux and the Languedoc, says he wants to unload his French assets. Perhaps because he has repeatedly criticized the French tax regime and became a Russian citizen in 2013!