Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
If Welcome to the Sticks hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
Both films sit with belonging, figuring out who you are, and the family you choose. Both circle the same ground: caught between worlds and old ways vs. new world. The feel is the same: warm, dark comedy, episodic, and escalating.
Both films sit with belonging, figuring out who you are, and the family you choose. Both circle the same ground: family wounds passed down, old ways vs. new world, and class and money. Same energy: whimsical, warm, episodic, and escalating.
Both films sit with belonging, figuring out who you are, and the family you choose. They share the same lens on family wounds passed down. Same energy: dark comedy, warm, escalating, and episodic.
Both films sit with belonging and the family you choose. The world both films live in revolves around class and money. Same energy: dark comedy, warm, episodic, and escalating.
Both films sit with figuring out who you are, belonging, and the family you choose. Both circle the same ground: class and money and family wounds passed down. Both move the same way too, warm, dark comedy, episodic, and escalating.
Like Welcome to the Sticks, this one is rooted in figuring out who you are and the family you choose. They share the same lens on class and money and family wounds passed down. The feel is the same: dark comedy, warm, escalating, and episodic.
What ties these together is belonging. The world both films live in revolves around class and money. Both move the same way too, whimsical, dark comedy, episodic, and escalating.
What ties these together is belonging, figuring out who you are, and the family you choose. The world both films live in revolves around class and money and family wounds passed down. Both move the same way too, warm, whimsical, escalating, and episodic.
