- Secrets from the past of Achille Lambert, a wine-maker in Bordeaux, are brought back by the aromas and tastes of four wines served to him by his daughter Roxane.
- Achille Lambert, a wine producer in Bordeaux like his father before him, is an old man in the twilight of his life. This evening, his only daughter, Roxane, has organized a blind tasting for him, with four different bottles of wine. The memories, brought back by the aromas and tastes of the wines, allow him to examine certain actions of his youth made secret by time and by the silence of others. However, thanks to this ritual of sense-memories aroused by the wines, he will finally find peace of mind and spirit.—Jana Kravitz Plissonneau
- Achille Lambert, a wine producer in Bordeaux like his father before him, is an old man in the twilight of his life. This evening, his only daughter, Roxane, has organized a blind tasting for him, with four different bottles of wine. The memories, brought back by the aromas and tastes of the wines like "Proust's madeleine," allow him to examine certain actions of his youth made secret by time and by the silence of others. However, thanks to this ritual of the senses and of memory by wine, he will finally find peace of mind and spirit.
For Achille Lambert, the protagonist, wine is the "fil rouge" or the "red thread" running through his life.
Wine in film is typically used as a prop, or backdrop. However, wine is capable of bringing on not only a reaction of the senses, but also of emotions. A wine without emotion is nothing. Memory is the motor of wine. Memory is also the fuel of life. Wine connects sense memory to that of existence. For a wine producer from generation to generation, this relationship is all the more obvious as his vineyard and his wine are also his work, his passion and his reason for living.
The narrative intention of Fil Rouge is to give a soul to wine, to show it as a source of life and emotion through the story of this Bordeaux wine producer and his family in the 20th century, bringing with it its joys and its sorrows.
The story of Fil Rouge takes place in the heart of the Right Bank of the Bordeaux wine region in the Bordeaux Supérieur appellation. Interior scenes of the kitchen and Achille's bedroom, and exterior vineyard scenes were filmed at Château Féret-Lambert in Grézillac; the cellar scene and additional vineyard scenes were filmed at Château de Bel in Arveyres.
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