Ridley Scott
USA | 2006 | 118mins | 35mm | Colour

Max Skinner is a high achieving, self-satisfying trader who rules the roost in the steel and glass world of London’s financial district where dubious business dealings, casual sex and rampant egotism are par for the course. While celebrating yet another monetary success, he learns his Uncle Henry has died.

Henry had owned a vineyard estate in Provence and Max had spent his formative childhood summers there while Henry had tried to educate him in the gentle art of savouring life – and wine. Having not seen Henry in twenty years, Max is surprised to learn he has inherited the entire estate. Keenly nosing an easy profit he arranges a quick trip to France to appraise the old property.

Max finds himself at a personal and professional crossroads in this beautifully realised setting, and his haste to sell the property falters when memories of his idyllic childhood rush back, and overpower his narcissistic present.