Every Ridley Scott Movie Ranked Worst To Best
17. A Good Year (2006)
As previously noted, Ridley Scott is a filmmaker with no set genre or tone. All of his films are different, difficult to predict and intriguing. Even so, A Good Year stands as the director's most unique and out of character project.
A Good Year represents a time in Scott's career where he seemed tired of making large, big budget blockbusters and action flicks, and wished to focus on smaller, more character-driven ideas.
The flick casts frequent collaborator Russell Crowe as an arrogant workaholic who falls in love with a young cafe owner (the ever-delightful Marion Cotillard) in France, where he also comes to terms with his fraught past and unsatisfying lifestyle.
No, A Good Year doesn't do break any new ground for the rom-com genre, but between Scott's eye for the beauty of the French landscape and the overall sweetness of the story, it's still a pretty good film.