Welcome to the Sticks
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
Our read · Welcome to the Sticks (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Welcome to the Sticks
What watching it is actually like.
“You want big-hearted French comedy where regional prejudice melts into warmth.”
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The reading.
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