FlixChatter Review: Widow Clicquot (2024)–Raise a glass to the luminous Haley Bennett as the Grande Dame of Champagne

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On July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 By ruthIn FlixChatter Reviews16 Comments

As someone who’s not much of a drinker, I’m not that familiar with the luxury champagne brand Veuve Clicquot, which literally means the movie's title, Widow Clicquot. The film opens with a somber funeral of a young man who turns out to be François Clicquot (Tom Sturridge), making Barbe-Nicole (Haley Bennett) a widow at 26. …

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MSPIFF 2019 Review: RED JOAN

On April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 By ruthIn FlixChatter Reviews12 Comments

Given that I have a thing for spy films AND I adore Dame Judi Dench, I knew I had to see Red Joan the second I saw the trailer. Dame Judi is best known to most moviegoers as James Bond's tough-as-nails boss M, so the idea of her playing a British-born former spy who transfers …

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