Patrick the donkey are two in fact: one quiet and sweet; the other one nervous and unpredictable.
The song "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" which is background music during the film and over the end credits is a recording of music from Rio Bravo (1959) and is sung by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson.
Selected for the 2020 Cannes International Film Festival (cancelled due to the Covid pandemic).
Writer/Director Caroline Vignal took inspiration from the characters of Delphine in The Green Ray (1986) and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (2001) for the main character Antoinette Lapouge, whose surname was taken from author Gilles Lapouge, who wrote the introduction for some French editions of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes", a key inspiration for the film. Coincidentally, Lapouge passed away the same year the film was released.
The film was a surprise theatrical success in France, where its run was interrupted by the second national COVID-19 lockdown, suggesting its box-office total could have been even higher.