Widow Clicquot
2023
Drama
Widow Clicquot
2023
Drama
80%
TOMATOMETER
· 69 reviews
82%
AUDIENCE
· 50 ratings
6.3/10
4.3K
Plot summary
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.
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Movie Reviews
Well acted, VERY dramatized.
God forbid a woman should live her own life, for herself, without men pulling her in all directions
This is the feeling I get from this movie. Even the writers felt the same need to make Barbe Nicole in need of male attention and companionship of some form or other. I actually resent the angle that this movie takes. Instead of focusing on this women's determination, resilience and ingeniousness, we are served this sob tale of a young woman's curbed romantic life, as she loses her beloved husband (who we later find out was not much of a gem) and then she has to deal with men trying to "protect" her from herself. She becomes some sort of early feminist icon with some very bad dialogue - the wheel and the hierarchy and how she must project strength as a woman amidst men who only see the weakness of her sex. That scene in court with Bohne coming to her defense with his miraculous "solution" I wanted to scream so much at him... She has a great comeback but how did the trial end though and why?
Plus the movie compresses quite a few years and I doubt a woman of that era would have allowed her maid or housekeeper to call her by her first name. That one really irked me.
Anyway, I got really tired of Francois and all the flashbacks and the musings and the wistful stares. It's great as a period movie, it hits all the regular beats, but I found the characters and the story unsatisfactory.