By taking a long Mediterranean cruise, four women had hoped to get away from
their daily traumas and enjoy a few weeks of unbroken repose. Instead,
they merely end up exchanging one set of traumas for another and their repose
turns out to be anything but unbroken. MSC Fantasia isn't exactly a
ship to hell, but neither is it one bound for the shores of paradise.
There are emotional outbursts aplenty and surprises galore as the women set
about trying to gain a new perspective on life, meeting new people and doing
things they would never have attempted in normal life - such as taking dancing
lessons. Relationships are made and broken, plans hatched and smashed,
as the four women make the most of their holiday of a lifetime on the deceptive
calm of the Mediterranean...
With so many great films to choose from, it's nigh on impossible to compile a short-list of the best 15 French films of all time - but here's our feeble attempt to do just that.