Loire

In the 1970s, the French national team was made up almost entirely of players south of the Loire River, drawing on the sport's small-town heartlands.

Light streams in not from clunky overhead fixtures but through floor-to-ceiling windows, offering gloriously unrestricted views of the verdant Loire Valley countryside.

The movie introduces Eugenie and Dodin in a leisurely scene that finds them preparing a lavish dinner for friends at their rustic chateau in the Loire Valley.

Instead this should be another day when the baroudeurs - breakaway specialists - excel on the rolling hills between the Loire and the Rhone.

Muscadet is a dry white from the westernmost side of the Loire valley, right by the Atlantic ocean.