For all the stirring proto-feminist messaging, this is a curiously uninvolving piece of storytelling.

Although Widow Clicquot won’t blow your mind, it is a solid, if muddled, biopic of someone who was entirely fascinating, founded a great champagne empire, became one of the richest women of her day and whom, I’m guessing, you know nothing about.

Bryce Dessner, from rock band The National, also contributes an austere score mixing spare strings and a convent-like choir. Overall, though, Widow Clicquot is distinctly lacking in verve.

The fascinating backstory that surely belongs with this tale of a female wine entrepreneur in Napoleonic France just doesn't get the attention it deserves in this vague, dreamy treatment with great atmos but weak script