greencap’s review published on Letterboxd:
Yet another unremarkable story that flowers and spruces up some random, shallow truth into something entirely too universal. Movies like this make me grateful for the films that have some form of voice.
The locality in this film is the only thing really going for it, and in that sense I get that its a French classic. I personally do not understand, though, how I'm supposed to take this comically over-aestheticized film in earnest. There are plenty of my own hypocrisies that you could sling at me in regards to this opinion (yes, I think Little Women (2019) is a visually beautiful and honest film and no, that does not contradict my opinion of this), but here the overwhelming sweetness and pastoral visual style feels so bloated when it is delivering a story as stale and uncharming as this one.
I grow more and more grateful for good movies everyday.