Grouchy character thesp Niels Arestrup ("A Prophet," the upcoming "War Horse") is ideally cast as the coldhearted, overly pragmatic owner of a Saint-Emilion winery who considers his milquetoast son an unsuitable successor--though not for lack of trying.
They can expect as a result, based on an actuary's coldhearted logic, to receive higher pensions in the expectation that they won't be around for too long to claim the money.
He writes, "Conservatives have turned Jesus Christ upside down: from a loving Messiah who hung out with the poor and dispossessed, into a coldhearted monster who only cares for the rich and powerful." He calls upon liberals and Democrats to return to basic principles of social justice, charity and tolerance.
The strange attraction of the younger detective to the coldhearted academic can be chalked up more to the detective's long drought of "involuntary celibacy" than to genuine fireworks.