Mr Blake, At Your Service! (PG)
A recent widower abandons his successful business career in the UK and accepts a temporary position as a butler in an eccentric French household in this romantic comedy drama.
From £6
The McCarthy
1h 50m
About
English businessman Andrew Blake lost the will to live when his wife died.
Hoping to remember some of the happy times they shared, he somehow musters the courage to return to France, his late wife’s birthplace, to spend some time in the property where they met. But his pilgrimage doesn’t quite go to plan. In fact, following a misunderstanding, he ends up at Beauvillier Manor, as expected... but as a butler on probation.
A far cry from the peace and serenity he was seeking, Blake unwittingly finds himself living alongside various larger than life characters: Mrs Beauvillier, a widow with a schedule as weird as her relationships, Odile, the strong-minded cook, Philippe, the nutty caretaker who lives like a hermit at the far end of the estate, and Manon, the young maid with a disastrous life.
With every passing experience - from eccentrically funny situations to the sharing of secrets, from clashes to confessions - Blake grows closer to each one of the residents. The combination of a fall, a wig, a cat, a threadbare stuffed toy, a hilarious burglary, a few secrets and a plethora of hopes works wonders to help the man who thought he had nothing left to live for.
In French with English subtitles.
Cast
John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Bas
Credits
Directed by Gilles Legardinier
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