The movies are beginning to find their voice and lazy summers in the French Riviera are becoming de rigueur for well-heeled Brits.
But while Downton Abbey is entering a new era at the end of the Roaring Twenties, it's business as usual for fans of the hit ITV drama.
Cleverly, writer Julian Fellowes doesn't stray far from his winning formula in this new big-screen adventure for the aristocratic Crawleys and their ever loyal lackeys.
