A Year in Burgundy

“The film follows the fortunes of seven winemaking families through the year’s cycle, from bud-break in spring to pruning in autumn. This is the sort of film they used to show in cinemas in the 1970s, before the main feature. It’s a paean to an ancient craft without a hint of bombast or polemic, gentle and old-fashioned and at some moments, like the closing scenes of autumn smoke rising from the pruners’ fires, it’s lyrical.”