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* InspiredBy: The director was inspired by reading ''Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes'' and realising how much it resembled a RomanticComedy.
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''My Donkey, My Lover, and I'' (the much better French title is ''Antoinette dans les Cévennes'') is a 2020 romantic comedy from France.
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''My Donkey, My Lover, and I'' (the much better French (French title is ''Antoinette dans les Cévennes'') is a 2020 romantic comedy from France.
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* StubbornMule: Antoinette, who is obviously ill at ease with Patrick, has enormous difficulty in getting the donkey to move. In one scene a highly agitated Antoinette starts yelling at the donkey to move, then lashes it with a whip, before bursting into tears and apologizing. She eventually figures out that the key is to walk alongside Patrick and constantly talk to him. (Eventually they get so at ease with each other that Patrick lets her ride him.)
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* StubbornMule: Antoinette, who is obviously ill at ease with Patrick, has enormous difficulty in getting the donkey to move. In one scene a highly agitated Antoinette starts yelling at the donkey to move, then lashes it with a whip, before bursting into tears and apologizing. She eventually figures out that the key is to walk alongside Patrick and constantly talk to him. (Eventually they get so at ease with each other that Patrick lets her ride him.))
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Laure Calamy stars as Antoinette, a French schoolteacher in her mid-forties. She is having a passionate affair with Vladimir, the father of one of her students--and Vladimir is married. Antoinette has a vacation with Vladimir planned, a hiking trip in the Cévennes mountains of southern France, but Vladimir gives her some unpleasant news: he isn't taking her. Instead, he's taking his wife and daughter.
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Laure Calamy stars as Antoinette, a French schoolteacher in her mid-forties. She is having a passionate affair with Vladimir, the father of one of her students--and Vladimir is married. The school year is over and Antoinette has is looking forward to taking a vacation with Vladimir planned, Vladimir, until he gives her some unpleasant news: he isn't going on vacation with her. Instead, he's taking his wife and daughter on a hiking trip in the Cévennes mountains of southern France, but Vladimir gives her some unpleasant news: he isn't taking her. Instead, he's taking his wife and daughter.
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* SexlessMarriage: It turns out that Eléonore knows exactly what's gong on with Antoinette and Vladimir. She tells Antoinette that she and her husband don't have sex anymore, that her husband has a very high sex drive and used to try and screw her every single night, and she's grateful to Antoinette "and the others" for taking the pressure off her. (She doesn't sound very grateful as she says this through clenched teeth.)
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* SexlessMarriage: It turns out that Eléonore knows exactly what's gong on with Antoinette and Vladimir. She tells Antoinette that she and her husband don't have sex anymore, that her husband has a very high sex drive and used to try and screw her every single night, night and she didn't care for that, and she's grateful to Antoinette "and the others" for taking the pressure off her. (She doesn't sound very grateful as she says this through clenched teeth.)
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* SceneryPorn: The stunning scenery of the Cévennes region of France is shown to maximum advantage, although Antoinette is usually too busy either screaming at Patrick or having sex with her lover to notice.
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* SexlessMarriage: It turns out that Eléonore knows exactly what's gong on with Antoinette and Vladimir. She tells Antoinette that she and her husband don't have sex anymore, that her husband has a very high sex drive and used to try and screw her every single night, and she's grateful to Antoinette "and the others" for taking the pressure off her. (She doesn't sound very grateful as she says this through clenched teeth.)
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* SleepCute: With a donkey, as Antoinette's evening getting lost in the woods ends up with her sleeping out in the open on the grass, resting up against Patrick.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Patrick, who has been completely silent throughout the film even as Antoinette was whipping him to get him to move, starts braying loudly when Vladimir--who of course is a user and a cad--comes walking up.
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* OminousOwl: At one point Antoinette wanders off the trail and gets lost, and is wandering through the woods as the sky grows dark. The sight of an owl in a tree staring at her only increases her sense of terror.
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** At the top of a mountain, an excited Eléonore shouts "We are the kings of the world!", in English. She is of course alluding to Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's "I'm king of the world!" scene from ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''.
** There's a lot of talk about Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's walk on the trail, and Antoinette is reading the French translation of his book ''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'' every night.
** At the top of a mountain, an excited Eléonore shouts "We are the kings of the world!", in English. She is of course alluding to Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's "I'm king of the world!" scene from ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''.
** There's a lot of talk about Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's walk on the trail, and Antoinette is reading the French translation of his book ''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'' every night.
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* RaceForYourLove: Basically, this happens between a woman and a donkey. Antoinette, who has reached the end of her trail, wants to say goodbye to Patrick, but she's told that the donkey's already been taken away. She goes racing to find him, and catches up to Patrick, who is now hauling gear for a handsome young man.
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* RaceForYourLove: Basically, this happens between a woman and a donkey. Antoinette, who has reached the end of her trail, wants to say goodbye to Patrick, but she's told that the donkey's already been taken away. She goes racing to find him, and catches up to Patrick, who is now hauling gear for a handsome young man.man.
* StubbornMule: Antoinette, who is obviously ill at ease with Patrick, has enormous difficulty in getting the donkey to move. In one scene a highly agitated Antoinette starts yelling at the donkey to move, then lashes it with a whip, before bursting into tears and apologizing. She eventually figures out that the key is to walk alongside Patrick and constantly talk to him. (Eventually they get so at ease with each other that Patrick lets her ride him.)
* StubbornMule: Antoinette, who is obviously ill at ease with Patrick, has enormous difficulty in getting the donkey to move. In one scene a highly agitated Antoinette starts yelling at the donkey to move, then lashes it with a whip, before bursting into tears and apologizing. She eventually figures out that the key is to walk alongside Patrick and constantly talk to him. (Eventually they get so at ease with each other that Patrick lets her ride him.)
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* GoingToSeeTheElephant: Antoinette goes on a hiking tour of Cévennes, not to see the scenic beauty of southern France or anything, but to find her married boyfriend.
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So Antoinette does the sane, rational thing: she follows them. With little planning, she finds herself in the south of France, taking quite a long, multi-day walk over the mountains and through the forests of the Cévennes, hoping to run into Vladimir. She is accompanied only by Patrick, a donkey, who is her pack animal as she walks the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail]]. Will Antoinette make it? Will she find Vladimir? Will she ever get Patrick, her stubborn, recalcitrant donkey, to move?
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So Antoinette does the sane, rational thing: she follows them. With little planning, she finds herself in the south of France, taking quite a long, multi-day walk over the mountains and through the forests of the Cévennes, hoping to run into Vladimir. She is accompanied only by Patrick, a donkey, who is her pack animal as she walks some 80km or so of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail]]. Will Antoinette make it? Will she find Vladimir? Will she ever get Patrick, her stubborn, recalcitrant donkey, to move?
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with Antoinette going off in the opposite direction, back the way she came, with Patrick and the handsome man who has rented Patrick as a pack animal.
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* LyricalDissonance: The opening scene has Antoinette leading her elementary class, at a school concert, as they sing a very inappropriate-for-children song about a woman taking her lover to bed. The reason Antoinette picked this tune is that it's a direct message to Vladimir, who is in the audience.
* MeetCute: The last scene has Antoinette meeting Romain, a handsome young man, when she dashes up to say goodbye to Patrick, now hauling Romain's stuff. After they see each other again, Patrick won't leave her, so she winds up accompanying Romain on a hike back the way she came.
* TheMistress: That's what Antoinette is, lover to a married man. She chases after him in a fit of jealousy when he goes on vacation with his wife and daughter.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with Antoinette going off in the opposite direction, back the way she came, with Patrick and the handsome man who has rented Patrick as a packanimal.animal.
* PiggybackCute: After Antoinette goes out drinking with a bunch of bikers who were on the trail, one of them who has taken a shine to her gives her a piggyback ride back to the hotel (she's sprained her ankle). Then he decides to just carry her. Sex follows.
* RaceForYourLove: Basically, this happens between a woman and a donkey. Antoinette, who has reached the end of her trail, wants to say goodbye to Patrick, but she's told that the donkey's already been taken away. She goes racing to find him, and catches up to Patrick, who is now hauling gear for a handsome young man.
* MeetCute: The last scene has Antoinette meeting Romain, a handsome young man, when she dashes up to say goodbye to Patrick, now hauling Romain's stuff. After they see each other again, Patrick won't leave her, so she winds up accompanying Romain on a hike back the way she came.
* TheMistress: That's what Antoinette is, lover to a married man. She chases after him in a fit of jealousy when he goes on vacation with his wife and daughter.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with Antoinette going off in the opposite direction, back the way she came, with Patrick and the handsome man who has rented Patrick as a pack
* PiggybackCute: After Antoinette goes out drinking with a bunch of bikers who were on the trail, one of them who has taken a shine to her gives her a piggyback ride back to the hotel (she's sprained her ankle). Then he decides to just carry her. Sex follows.
* RaceForYourLove: Basically, this happens between a woman and a donkey. Antoinette, who has reached the end of her trail, wants to say goodbye to Patrick, but she's told that the donkey's already been taken away. She goes racing to find him, and catches up to Patrick, who is now hauling gear for a handsome young man.
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''My Donkey, My Lover, and I'' (the much better French title is ''Antoinette dans les Cévennes'') is a 2020 romantic comedy from France.
Laure Calamy stars as Antoinette, a French schoolteacher in her mid-forties. She is having a passionate affair with Vladimir, the father of one of her students--and Vladimir is married. Antoinette has a vacation with Vladimir planned, a hiking trip in the Cévennes mountains of southern France, but Vladimir gives her some unpleasant news: he isn't taking her. Instead, he's taking his wife and daughter.
So Antoinette does the sane, rational thing: she follows them. With little planning, she finds herself in the south of France, taking quite a long, multi-day walk over the mountains and through the forests of the Cévennes, hoping to run into Vladimir. She is accompanied only by Patrick, a donkey, who is her pack animal as she walks the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail]]. Will Antoinette make it? Will she find Vladimir? Will she ever get Patrick, her stubborn, recalcitrant donkey, to move?
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with Antoinette going off in the opposite direction, back the way she came, with Patrick and the handsome man who has rented Patrick as a pack animal.
Laure Calamy stars as Antoinette, a French schoolteacher in her mid-forties. She is having a passionate affair with Vladimir, the father of one of her students--and Vladimir is married. Antoinette has a vacation with Vladimir planned, a hiking trip in the Cévennes mountains of southern France, but Vladimir gives her some unpleasant news: he isn't taking her. Instead, he's taking his wife and daughter.
So Antoinette does the sane, rational thing: she follows them. With little planning, she finds herself in the south of France, taking quite a long, multi-day walk over the mountains and through the forests of the Cévennes, hoping to run into Vladimir. She is accompanied only by Patrick, a donkey, who is her pack animal as she walks the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail]]. Will Antoinette make it? Will she find Vladimir? Will she ever get Patrick, her stubborn, recalcitrant donkey, to move?
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The film ends with Antoinette going off in the opposite direction, back the way she came, with Patrick and the handsome man who has rented Patrick as a pack animal.
