{"id":55193,"date":"2025-07-31T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=55193"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:58:19","slug":"holy-cow-vignt-dieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=55193","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cow (Vignt Dieux)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux)\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Louise Courvoisier\u2019s debut feature is a charming, warm-hearted coming-of-age film, grounded in the land and people of the Jura region of France. In his late teens, Totone (portrayed by Cl\u00e9ment Faveau in his screen debut) leads a carefree life, hanging out with his friends, drinking, and occasionally hooking up. He\u2019s spontaneous and impulsive, good-looking enough to catch the eye of a young woman, but not able to achieve a relationship.<\/p>\n

Totone (short for Anthony) spends most of his time drinking with his friends Francis (Dimitri Baudry) and Jean-Yves (Mathis Bernard). But his father\u2019s sudden death leaves him as sole guardian for his 5-year-old sister Claire (Luna Garret). There\u2019s no discussion of emotions, it\u2019s a culture where actions not only speak louder than words, but in their stead. Totone steps up and takes responsibility for Claire, yet it is obvious that he is ill-prepared for the task. He must also now find a way to support them both financially.<\/p>\n

Initially Totone remains an impulsive kid at heart. His attempts to take on a steady job and get his sister to school on time are filled with missteps. His father\u2019s friend Serge helps him get a job at a dairy where they make award-winning Comt\u00e9 cheese, a specialty of the Jura region. Realizing that making an award-winning cheese could be the financial rescue he desperately needs, Totone overcomes his general genial tendency to aimlessness to take on a goal, but it\u2019s a lot closer to a daydream than a realistic aim. In his carelessly handsome way, he easily makes the acquaintance of the boss\u2019s daughter, Marie-Lise (Ma\u00efwene Barthelemy). As a young woman running her own farm, working from 5am to 10pm, she can teach Totone a thing or two.<\/p>\n

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Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux)\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Totone goes for it with all his youthful energy, few moral qualms, and a lot of help from his friends. Not much needs to be said, it\u2019s simply understood that Francis and Jean-Yves are by his side to do whatever needs to be done. Claire is a lot more tolerant, helpful and mature than one would expect from such a young child, but that is perhaps the result of growing up alongside Totone. Luna Garret is simply wonderful as Claire, ever wise, yet very much a young child. Cl\u00e9ment Faveau captures the charisma and impulsiveness of Totone as he struggles into maturity.\u00a0 Cinematographer Elio Balezeaux expresses the natural beauty of the region, as well as the hard work of its people.<\/p>\n

Director: Louise Courvoisier; Screenplay: Louise Courvoisier, Th\u00e9o Abadie; Cinematography: Elio Balezeaux; Music: Linda Courvoisier, Charles Courvoisier; Editor: Sarah Grosset; Cast: Cl\u00e9ment Faveau, Ma\u00efwene Barthelemy, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard, Dimitry Baudry, Armand Sancey Richard, Lucas Marillier.<\/p>\n

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Louise Courvoisier\u2019s debut feature is a charming, warm-hearted coming-of-age film, grounded in the land and people of the Jura region of France. In his late teens, Totone (portrayed by Cl\u00e9ment Faveau in his screen debut) leads a carefree life, hanging out with his friends, drinking, and occasionally hooking up. He\u2019s spontaneous and impulsive, good-looking enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,96,625],"class_list":["post-55193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-coming-of-age","tag-film","tag-jura-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}