NEW YORK—Wine experts love to talk about how important terroir (the combination of land and environmental factors) is for Burgundy wines. That makes it very labor and resource intensive. A prodigal son is only back a few days when his estranged siblings put him to work overseeing the harvest. It is no vacation, but it might be the distraction from his marital problems that he needs in Cédric Klapisch’s “Back to Burgundy,” which opens March 23 in New York.
Jean made it home to Burgundy just in time for a final conversation with his father, but it was unsatisfyingly one-sided. Due to several misunderstandings, he is not particularly welcomed by his younger brother Jérémie, but middle sister Juliette tries to act as peacemaker. She is also the new boss of the family domain, for which all three now owe over $500,000 in inheritance taxes as the equal co-heirs.
