travels with a donkey in the cevennes quotes

Piggyback Cute: After Antoinette goes out drinking with a bunch of bikers who were on the trail, one of them who has taken a shine to her gives her a piggyback ride back to the hotel (she's sprained her ankle).The sight of an owl in a tree staring at her only increases her sense of terror. Ominous Owl: At one point Antoinette wanders off the trail and gets lost, and is wandering through the woods as the sky grows dark.Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The film ends with Antoinette going off in the opposite direction, back the way she came, with Patrick and the handsome man who has rented Patrick as a pack animal.She chases after him in a fit of jealousy when he goes on vacation with his wife and daughter. The Mistress: That's what Antoinette is, lover to a married man.After they see each other again, Patrick won't leave her, so she winds up accompanying Romain on a hike back the way she came. Meet Cute: The last scene has Antoinette meeting Romain, a handsome young man, when she dashes up to say goodbye to Patrick, now hauling Romain's stuff.The reason Antoinette picked this tune is that it's a direct message to Vladimir, who is in the audience. Lyrical Dissonance: The opening scene has Antoinette leading her elementary class, at a school concert, as they sing a very inappropriate-for-children song about a woman taking her lover to bed.Inspired by…: The director was inspired by reading Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes and realising how much it resembled a Romantic Comedy.Going to See the Elephant: Antoinette goes on a hiking tour of Cévennes, not to see the scenic beauty of southern France or anything, but to find her married boyfriend.Evil-Detecting Dog: Patrick, who has been completely silent throughout the film even as Antoinette was whipping him to get him to move, starts braying loudly when Vladimir-who of course is a user and a cad-comes walking up.

Will Antoinette make it? Will she find Vladimir? Will she ever get Patrick, her stubborn, recalcitrant donkey, to move? She is accompanied only by Patrick, a donkey, who is her pack animal as she walks some 80km or so of the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail. With little planning, she finds herself in the south of France, taking quite a long, multi-day walk over the mountains and through the forests of the Cévennes, hoping to run into Vladimir. So Antoinette does the sane, rational thing: she follows them. Instead, he's taking his wife and daughter on a hiking trip in the Cévennes mountains of southern France.

The school year is over and Antoinette is looking forward to taking a vacation with Vladimir, until he gives her some unpleasant news: he isn't going on vacation with her. She is having a passionate affair with Vladimir, the father of one of her students-and Vladimir is married. Laure Calamy stars as Antoinette, a French schoolteacher in her mid-forties. My Donkey, My Lover, and I (French title Antoinette dans les Cévennes) is a 2020 romantic comedy from France.

Travels with a donkey in the cevennes quotes