The Horseman on the Roof
Why this pick
Like The Girl from Paris, it finds renewal in the French countryside and gives its characters room to change through work, landscape, and encounters, though with a more sweeping period-film scale.
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Why this pick
Like The Girl from Paris, it finds renewal in the French countryside and gives its characters room to change through work, landscape, and encounters, though with a more sweeping period-film scale.
Why this pick
A warm, unhurried French rural drama where practical labour, family friction, and a deeply felt sense of place carry the emotional weight.
Why this pick
For another sharply observed French character comedy, this pairs a self-contained professional with a disruptive new environment and lets the humour arise from mismatched temperaments.
Why this pick
Michel Serrault's gentle, human-scale spirit is echoed in this tender French story of an unlikely friendship, personal growth, and small daily routines.
Why this pick
The same satisfying emotional movement from isolation and entrenched habits toward connection unfolds through dry humour, neighbourly frictions, and an unsentimental warmth.
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01 / THE STORY
Sandrine (Mathilde Seigner) gets tired of her life as an Information technology instructor in Paris and decides to leave her work and dedicate her life to agriculture. She first goes to college where she earns her Bachelor degree#BTS in two years, undertaking internships along the way. She then wishes to buy an isolated farm in the Vercors Plateau from an old farmer called Adrien (Michel Serrault) who wishes to retire.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Adrien

Sandrine Dumez

Gérard
Jean
Stéphane
la mère de Sandrine
l'exploitant
le barman