Widow Clicquot

2023
15
1h 30m

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6.3/10

3.8K

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The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

3.8K

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3,327

280

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7/10

Beautiful and Fascinating.

Widow Clicquot is an adaption of a true story about Madame Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, who was to become known as the "Grande Dame of Champagne". Widowed after her mentally ill husband commits suicide, Barbe-Nicole must take on the male hierarchy to have control over her deceased husband's vineyard and in doing so continue with their quest to create something great, during a time when Napoleon had blocked trade routes. Haley Bennet was superb as Barbe-Nicole, you felt her power and her grief. I have to say she reminds me of Jennifer Lawrence in looks. The whole cast was fantastic, if you love historical dramas about strong women, I highly recommend it.

destiny_west
Aug 12, 2024
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In July 2010, Finnish divers found 168 bottles of champagne beneath the Baltic Sea off the coast of Åland. The bottles were sent back to France for analysis. Forty-six were identified as Veuve Clicquot. When the wine was tasted in 2015, several of them were still drinkable, well-preserved thanks to the cold and dark conditions at the depth. A bottle of nearly 200-year-old Veuve Clicquot broke the record for the most expensive champagne ever sold. In 2011, a bidder paid EUR30,000 for one of them found in the Baltic Sea.

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At the end of the movie it's stated that Barbe Nicole passed away at 89. But in fact she passed away at 88.

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[first lines]
Barbe Nicole: [narrating] Looking back on that first day with you, I think I understood immediately why humans beings are compelled to create. Why we must find some way to lay down our lives, however best we can.
Barbe Nicole: It is so the we might uncover the secrets of ourselves, better understand the ones we love. The time and place in which we live. And that with any luck, 100 years from now, someone will know that we were here.