Official Trailer
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- Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, Natasha O'Keeffe
- August 23rd 2024
- Thomas Napper
Haley Bennett plays the trailblazing Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, who takes over her late husband’s wine business and makes it a success.
You may have heard about the Champagne brand Veuve Clicquot, but do you know about the revolutionary woman who made it so popular?
Set in the Champagne region of France in the early 1800s, this drama tells the story of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Haley Bennett), who became a widow at the age of 27 following the death of her husband Francois (Tom Sturridge).
At that time, women did not run businesses so her father-in-law Philippe (Ben Miles) urged her to sell their vineyards. But the determined Barbe-Nicole refused to give up their fields and took charge of the wine-making enterprise on her late husband’s behalf, turning it into one of the largest Champagne houses.
Widow Clicquot shines a spotlight on a remarkable, trailblazing woman who defiantly ran a business in a male-dominated industry and proved all her naysayers wrong.
The male wine producers around her believed women didn’t have a head for business but she showed them not to...
