#*widow clicquot

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2025 MOVIE DIARY

WIDOW CLICQUOT (2023) dir. Thomas Napper

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TOM STURRIDGE as François Clicquot in Widow Clicquot (2023)

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Tom Sturridge as François Clicquot in Widow Clicquot (2023)

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Do you remember when you said that I was the one who was going to change things? It wasn't me. Oh, my darling… It was never me. It was always you. WIDOW CLICQUOT 2023 — dir. Thomas Napper

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HALEY BENNETT for The Laterals

ph. Alexander Beer

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Widow Clicquot (2023) dir. Thomas Napper

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TOM STURRIDGE as François Clicquot in Widow Clicquot (2023)

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WIDOW CLICQUOT (2023)

dir. thomas napper

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Tom Sturridge in Widow Clicquot (2023)

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Tom Sturridge as François Clicquot in “Widow Clicquot.”

“Compared with Barbe-Nicole, however, it seems François was sensitive and moody, and she must also have noticed immediately the way in which his mother and father coddled him. She soon understood why. He could be cheerful and energized one moment and apparently turn melancholy and despairing the next. This was a side of her husband she would not have expected. Despite the close connections between their families, she had not seen much of him for several years.”

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“François's letters home from 1792 to 1794 are filled with patriotic zeal. He had a romantic view of war and was naturally an idealist. He was also apparently prone to illness and more worryingly to depression. Philippe wrote urgent letters to his son in Switzerland, reminding François of his "weak temperament" and history of hernias. In other letters, he begged his son to fight melancholy and eat well. There was a darker side to François's ebullient personality that his parents knew only too well.”

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“But even if she did not realize it yet, she and François were essentially mismatched in at least one fundamental way. She had inherited all her father's and Philippe's ruthless pragmatism and keen business instincts. Barbe-Nicole, however, had married a dreamer. And he had his heart set on the wine business.”

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TOM STURRIDGE attends a red carpet for the movie "Widow Clicquot" during the 18th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica on October 19, 2023

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Natasha O'Keeffe and Haley Bennett in Widow Clicquot

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Widow Clicquot (Thomas Napper, 2023)

cinematography: Caroline Champetier