Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

leisurely-paced sentimental view of French folks, food:

Peter and Annie, a retired ad executive and a tax accountant, leave behind England's dreary weather, wilted vegetables, and ironical dinner parties, for Provence, a region of Southern France. They throw themselves wholeheartedly and usually with good humor into the mysteries of truffle hunting, grape pressing, and french conjugations. No need to worry about what you remember from French class, if anything--Peter and Annie translate as they go along. Personally, I could watch John Thaw open mail and be... more info

Fun for some, but poor-quality DVD:

I've been revisiting this wonderful mini-series on DVD, watching it on a hi-res screen, and note that the image-quality is really appalling. It looks like they took an old VHS tape, and strained it through a sieve. Which is probably pretty close to what actually happened, the "sieve" in this case being a really crude digital-compression system. Too bad, because it contains a lot of beautiful scenic photography, which has been turned to mush.

Is Something Missing?:

I thoroughly enjoyed this series(VHS format) but the DVD version seems to be missing some scenes.
Has anyone else noticed this or is it my imagination?

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