![]() ![]() ![]() The lovers wanted to get married but she first had to get a divorce, and returned to the United States to sign the papers. He was 27 and living a bohemian life in France, where he fell in love with Fanny Osbourne, a married woman from San Francisco ten years his senior, who had come to Barbizon to learn how to paint. In 1878, the Scottish author had yet to write Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. ![]() This is how director Caroline Vignal’s comedy begins, following a rather hopeless fortysomething with a taste for terrible love interests, who finally finds herself when she unwittingly stumbles in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. The first encounter with her very own donkey is just as hilarious. Armed with a pink suitcase and wedge sandals, the Parisienne sticks out among the other hikers wearing rain ponchos and sturdy boots. No matter! Antoinette packs her bags and boards a bus to Chasseradès in the heart of the Lozère département, looking for her lover. ![]() They plan to spend a week together while his wife (Olivia Côte) is away, but she cancels her trip to the Ile de Ré at the last minute to take her family hiking with a donkey in the middle of France. Antoinette Lapouge, an elementary school teacher played brilliantly by Laure Calamy (Noémie in Call My Agent!), is desperately in love with Vladimir (Benjamin Lavernhe from the Comédie-Française), the married father of one of her students. ![]()
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