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Comment by Magic Marmalade:
I'ts only taken me decades to do, but finally got around to watching this...
(I'd always pushed it back thinking it was going to be a cheap piece of shonk)
...And as reviews like the one below tell, I was wrong, and they are absolutely spot on!
Magnificent movie.
Very odd, though, it doesn't, aside from the basic premise of a guy sent to buy up piece of coastline for an oil company, seem to have a plot.
...It doesn't seem to have anything by way of traditional shifts in the story that would recognisably be considered "drama" - no struggles, no antagonist, or villain, no "all is lost" moment, no real act or acts of overt "heroism"... It just... is.
And what it is, is gentle, warm, lightly funny, quirky, stunningly beautiful to look at, and is a veritable warm hearth of a movie, which will henceforth, serve as a great comfort food of a movie.
Why did it take me so long?!!!
All it is, based on the premise mentioned above, is a big city business type (not objectionable in any way, or cartoonish, or a caricature) dropped in this stunning little world of this village on the coast, and it, and the people there, just go to work on him; Eroding him until he, by degrees falls in love with the place and people.
As will you, if you haven't seen it yet, and intend to watch it.
Sublime.