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My Donkey, My Lover & I

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My Donkey, My Lover & I
Film poster
FrenchAntoinette dans les Cévennes
Directed byCaroline Vignal
Written byCaroline Vignal
Based onTravels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Produced byLaetitia Galitzine
Aurélie Rouvière
StarringLaure Calamy
CinematographySimon Beaufils
Edited byAnnette Dutertre
Production
companies
Chapka Films
La Filmerie
Distributed byDiaphana Films
Release date
  • 16 September 2020 (2020-09-16) (France)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
LanguageFrench
Box office$8 million[1][2]

My Donkey, My Lover & I (French: Antoinette dans les Cévennes) is a 2020 French comedy film directed by Caroline Vignal and starring Laure Calamy.[3][4]

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Production

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Principal photography began on 11 June 2019 and took place in the Cévennes and the Île-de-France region. The seven-week shoot lasted until 31 July 2019.[5] The film was shot largely in the Lozère department, with locations including the Mont Lozère and its Sommet de Finiels, the Roc du Couillou, the Col du Sapet as well as the village of Le Pont-de-Montvert. Antoinette ends her journey in the small town of Florac, in the heart of the Cévennes.[6]

Reception

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On Rotten Tomatoes, My Donkey, My Lover & I holds an approval rating of 89% based on 46 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The critics consensus reads: "Charming performances from Laure Calamy and her four-legged co-star help make My Donkey, My Lover & I a familiar yet breezily enjoyable journey of self-discovery."[7] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]

References

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  1. ^ "My Donkey, My Lover & I (2020)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Antoinette dans les Cévennes (2020)". The Numbers. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  3. ^ Clarke, Cath (3 March 2021). "My Donkey, My Lover & I review – eat, bray, love … and French manners". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Antoinette dans les Cévennes". Retrieved 10 November 2023 – via www.allocine.fr.
  5. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (2019-06-11). "Caroline Vignal shooting My Donkey, My Lover and I". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  6. ^ "ANTOINETTE DANS LES CÉVENNES". Lozère Tourisme (in French). 2021-09-23. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  7. ^ "My Donkey, My Lover & I". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  8. ^ "My Donkey, My Lover & I". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
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