Issei’s stoic nature (played to perfection by Tomohisa Yamashita) contrasts profoundly with Camille’s often rage-fueled tirades (the woman has reasons), and we see in his own home life that neither his mother nor his grandfather have any respect for Issei’s devotion to wine. Tomohisa Yamashita as Issei and Makiko Watanabe as his mother in ‘Drops of God’ Her sense of smell helps her overcome her fear of taste early on during the competition, but, through what can only be described as sheer force of will, Camille overcomes her psychological block and its physical manifestations to allow the battle between her and Issei to be joined in full. The one thing Camille has going for her in this battle of vino wits is her nose.
Camille is immediately afflicted with a horrible nose bleed and runs off to the bathroom to vomit. In a rather elegant tracking shot (directed by Oded Ruskin, who is behind the camera for every episode),we follow Camille to a bar where she strikes up a conversation with a just slightly over-served younger man, who while coming onto her, takes a swig of whiskey as he kisses her.
You see just how bad Camille’s aversion to alcohol is early on.
As one might guess, not having your sense of taste available to you for a series of wine challenges is not helpful in the slightest. The trauma is so great for Camille that she develops what appears to be a psychological allergy to alcohol. At first the young Camille loves the ritual, but it soon turns sour and overly intense when she can’t identify a scent. We learn early on that Camille (a wonderful Fleur Geffrier) and her father have been estranged for many years, and the time they spent together was often spent going through a series of blindfolded smell tests of all the individual ingredients in wine. Manon Maindivide and Stanley Weber as young Camille and Alexandre in ‘Drops of God’ After his death, Iseii (the student) and Camille (the daughter) are charged with going through a series of wine-based contests, with the winner taking both the wine collection and the entirety of the old man’s estate. An old, bitter man named Alexander (Stanley Weber, giving Brian Cox a run for his Succession money in terms of playing toxic fathers), who has devoted his life to collecting the most valuable wine collection in the world, sets up a competition in his will between his most prized student and his daughter. The concept of Drops of God (created by Quoc Dang Tran) is both simple and compelling. Download: Drops of God: The Best (and Most Unsung) New Show of the Year So Far
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