Mr. Blake at Your Service!

Mr. Blake at Your Service! (2023) is a French comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. After his wife's death, wealthy Englishman Andrew Blake walks out on London for the French château where the two of them first met.

The staff there mistake him for the butler they've been expecting — and Blake, played by John Malkovich, decides to play along. The stiff Englishman ends up running a half-ruined estate staffed by a hard-drinking groundskeeper, a pregnant housekeeper, broken-down appliances and one supremely indifferent cat. The lady of the house, Fanny Ardant, has no idea who is really serving her breakfast.

Director Gilles Legardinier adapts his own bestselling novel into a gentle tale of second chances, all dry British wit set against the French countryside. Malkovich underplays every scene, and his deadpan is half the pleasure. Stream Mr. Blake at Your Service! online on iFILM.