Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (2001)

Director:

Christian Carion

Writers:

Christian Carion (writer) and
Eric Assous (writer)

Release Date:

5 September 2001 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The sleeper hit that has already charmed more than 2 million French moviegoers.

Plot:

Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer...

Plot Keywords:

Farm | Computer | Vercors | Health | Mother Daughter Relationship

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Michel Serrault	...	Adrien
Mathilde Seigner	...	Sandrine Dumez
Jean-Paul Roussillon	...	Jean
Frédéric Pierrot	...	Gérard
Marc Berman	...	Stéphane
Françoise Bette	...	La mère de Sandrine
Christophe Rossignon	...	L'exploitant
Roland Chalosse	...	Le barman
Achiles Francisco Varas dell'Aquila	...	Barfly
Henri Pasquale	...	Card player
Paul Courat	...	Card player
Bernard Gerland	...	Card player
Ramon Bertrand	...	Card player
Grazziela Horens	...	Dark-haired girl
Vincent Borei	...	Dark-haired boy

Also Known As:

The Girl from Paris (UK) (USA) (festival title)
One Swallow Brought Spring (International: English title)

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Malaysia:U | Iceland:L | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:6 | Norway:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Vercors, Drôme, France

Company:

Artémis Productions

Trivia:

At one point the farmers tie a bottle to a pear tree and stick a small branch with a blossom inside. They do this so, in a few months, the result will be a full sized pear inside the bottle, much too big to have been put into the bottle in the usual way. One of the farmers uses it to make a bottle of a pear flavored alcoholic drink, with the pear still inside, and the bottle, pear, and drink appear late in the film when the two farmers and Sandrine have a drink together.

Soundtrack:

Lullaby

Life in an art form

The Girl From Paris is a stunning film that in its slow pace of life it does not hurry in fact; though some of it is hard to watch (i.e., animal slaughter) it brings you into to this Parisian woman's life as she becomes a farmer and endures through the good times and bad that people and nature offer her. The one thing about this movie that really stands out for me is its steady pace for simplicity; it is not in any way a fantasy; though I found myself as usual wanting to travel, but I'm not implying that that is fantasy, it is simply a chunk of life that could happen to anyone at anytime. It is not epic and it is not grand in the way of blockbuster mega hits, but in life's everyday occurrences it is. Each and every character is raw, because the director so carefully captured each nuance of emotion and the actors were very real, they were not put on and jazzed up, filled with witty one-liners, but were dealing with what they could as it came. Each movement and sentence, each facial expression was filled with emotion, even a small gesture of apprehension was as obvious as it was subtle.

From my own perspective I would recommend this to anyone, but I think many people might have a hard time staying in there seats, if fast paced is there movie thrill, because this is not. But it is as I mentioned before, stunning in simplicity, it was life in an art form, so to speak.