Laure Calamy shines at the center of Caroline Vignal’s charming French comedy “My Donkey, My Lover & I,” in a performance that earned her a Cesar Award for best actress in 2021. The original French title of the film is “Antoinette dans les Cevennes,” or “Antoinette in the Cevennes,” a reference to the film’s inspiration, the 1879 book by Robert Louis Stevenson, “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.” In 1878, seeking distance from an affair with a married American woman, Stevenson set out on a 12-day hiking trip in southcentral France with a donkey named Modestine to carry his belongings. His…
