Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Release Date
2008-02-20
Rating
7
Duration
106 min
Countries
Keywords
jealousy clock tower provence southern france lie postman mama's boy bias local speciality relocation prejudice cultural difference job transfer northern france bell tower postal worker hospitality community spirit dialect small community wine drinking unhappy marriage social prejudice accents disability fraud
Qualities
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
