Minka Kelly stars as Sydney Price, a young business woman who is on one mission: Acquire a champagne vineyard for The Roth Company. The problem? She’s maybe falling in love. That’s the premise of Champagne Problems on Netflix.
The Netflix holiday film has Sydney heading to the City of Love during Christmas. Forgoing her plans of watching Die Hard with her sister, Sydney is forced to work throughout the holiday, but she doesn’t necessarily hate being locked in a villa in France. Why? The owner of the vineyard’s son. Henri (Tom Wozniczka) meets Sydney when the two are off in a book store but after a magical night in Paris, the two realize that they’re a lot more connected than they originally thought.
It is your typical kind of Netflix movie. Two people meet, have a whirlwind night, realize they are forced to work together, and have to overcome the “business” side of things. But what makes Champagne Problems a fun twist on Netflix’s holiday slate is that it isn’t the same old story told to us in a new location. Yes, it has the rom-com elements we’ve come to expect from the streamer but it does allow Paris to do a lot of the heavy lifting.
Without Paris, this is unfortunately just a predictable rom-com. Girl meets boy, girl spends night with boy, girl has to convince boy’s father to let her take over the vineyard. The issue being that the company she works for has a reputation that Sydney doesn’t really know anything about and the weekend is spent with Sydney trying to find over Henri and his father (Thibault de Montalembert). But like any good rom-com, it is less about the logistics of Sydney’s working relationship and more about what it means to find love during the lonely holiday season.
Champagne Problems is yet another addition to Netflix’s holiday collection that you will probably watch this year and never again but at least it is better than the other films on their roster.
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