A Good Year

Actor Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott aren't known as the comedy types, so their involvement in something approaching French farce is a curiousity, if nothing else. Packing extra pounds and unflattering glasses, Crowe gamely makes a spectacle of himself as an arrogant London moneyman who inherits a vineyard in Provence. Albert Finney is the ghost of an uncle who wonders if his appreciation of wine and other pleasures runs in the family; Marion Cotillard the town beauty who plays hard to get.