Back to Burgundy

Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie, 2017) is Cédric Klapisch's French family drama, and you can watch online on iFILM. Jean left home a decade ago to roam the world. His father's illness pulls him back to Burgundy, to his sister Juliette, his younger brother Jérémie, and the vineyard the three of them grew up on.

Their father dies in the middle of the harvest, and the siblings inherit not just the land but a crushing tax bill that comes with it. Sell the estate or hold on to it? Each of them wants something different. Jean is itching to return overseas, Juliette is making wine on her own for the first time and terrified of getting it wrong, and Jérémie keeps disappearing into his wife's family. Across four seasons and four harvests, between talk of terroir, barrels and fermentation, the three slowly relearn how to trust one another.

Klapisch shot in working estates in the Côte-d'Or, and the winemaking is filmed honestly and beautifully at the same time. Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot and François Civil play the siblings. A warm, unhurried film for anyone drawn to stories about family, roots and the taste of a place. Stream Back to Burgundy (2017) online on iFILM.