La Revole (1999) User Reviews

France first 3D musical

[juliosanblas · 7 August 2020]

This is a musical made for the Hameau Duboeuf museum exhibition in 3D, AKA "La R'vole", circles around the end of the season recollection of the grapes for the wine production in the vinards. Film opens with a traveler in his sixties that has fallen asleep reading a newspaper in the compartment of a train. A headline on the front page reads that a weather vane with the design of Ceres, the ancient Greek goddess of the grape harvest, mysteriously disappeared the night before in a famous Beaujolais village. As the train stops in the sunny countryside for no apparent reason, a beautiful young woman magically appears in the compartment and sits opposite the traveler. The train takes off and the traveler wakes up with a startled. He sees the young woman, apologizes for falling asleep, and introduces himself as Christian Marin, a well-known actor, invited to Beaujolais to share the La Revole dinner, prepared by Paul Paul Bocuse and chaired by Bernard Pivot (famous French chef, actor and personality). He is very surprised to learn from the young woman that she's Ceres herself, the true goddess of the harvest and that every year she comes down from her weather vane to control the grapes and help humans make good wine. Delighted, the traveler invites Ceres to join him and his friends for dinner at La R'vole, fearing however that "They will never believe that you are a Goddess!". "Well then, we'll tell them I'm just your niece!" she responds. Meanwhile, a group of grape pickers goes to the vineyards signing, laughing and having fun, as well as a young kitchen assistant who returns from the market singing with his horses. Then, in Paul Bocuse's kitchen, Ceres mischievously gives a blind tasting wine lesson to these older, informed men, who are so shocked. But then she will be the one who takes a lesson from Paul Bocuse himself, to prepare her famous Poularde a la Bocuse with a recipe read in verse by Bernard Pivot. After the last day of work, the grape pickers return for the famous dinner. While waiting for Paul Bocuse, actor Christian Marin, Bernard Pivot, Ceres and others play riddles. Impatient, Bernard Pivot expresses his feelings. "I would have given two months of my life to have a sip in my glass right now, a sample of Beaujolais Nouveau." Referring to Pivot's famous television show about books and language, Ceres takes his word and magically, to everyone's surprise during the night and by herself, does the Beaujolais Nouveau.