Avenue Montaigne
by Dani?le Thompson
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Actor: Albert Dupontel, C?cile De France, Claude Brasseur, Laura Morante, Val?rie LemercierDirector: Dani?le Thompson
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Movie Reviews of Avenue Montaigne
Movie Review: Life in Paris on a piano note and a touch of Sacha Distel
Summary: 5 Stars
As it is in heaven so it is in Paris... all life is on a musical note with a touch of coincidence. The feelings which overwhelmed me in this movie are equally displayed in a well balanced musical d?cor worthy of anyone's attention over a Moroccan green tea. The mix is tres magnificent. I wondered about this movie for a while as I was mixing my own green tea with the right balance of mint; and so the taste was just right. No one could take that away from this movie - it tastes perfect. And the `off-the-cuff' acting style felt just right. Much like the piano player (played by Albert Dupontel), there were times when I felt like taking my shirt off; to be left with nothing but a t-shirt in an all important event. This movie shows that even in a classic setting the contents is all that matters and the comfort is at your disposal. Watch it with the critical eye if you must; but enjoy it with the heart's eye.
Although I have not really delved into the movie itself, as others have done, I feel like I would spoil it if I began to differentiate between the actors who have played in it.
Avec plaisir /.Will
Summary of Avenue Montaigne
This centers around jessica a beautiful young woman from the provinces who comes to paris & lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled avenue montaigne. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 07/17/2007 Starring: Cecile De France Claude Brasseur Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13French for "Orchestra Seats," Avenue Montaigne offers an outsider's perspective on an insular world (the original title is Fauteuils d'Orchestre). After bidding adieu to her grandmother (Suzanne Flon in her final performance), sunny Jessica (C?cile De France, L'Auberge Espagnole) moves from M?con to Paris. Upon securing a job as a waitress in a popular caf?, she meets high-strung soap star Catherine (Val?rie Lemercier), burnt-out pianist Jean-Fran?ois (Albert Dupontel), and secretive art collector Jacques (Claude Brasseur), who comes equipped with a pretty girlfriend and a handsome son (Christopher Thompson). Though the tousled Jessica has little in common with these posh Parisians, she affects each of their lives in ways both big and small. Directed by Dani?le Thompson (La B?che) and co-written with her son, Christopher, Avenue Montaigne serves as the flipside to French phenomenon When the Cat's Away, in which a young woman meets the people in her neighborhood while searching for an errant feline. In this case, the surroundings are more upscale, but the residents are just as susceptible to fear and insecurity. Though the idea of a sympathetic look at the upper class will surely strike some as off-putting, Thompson makes it work. The genuine affection she feels for her characters--privileged and underprivileged alike--and the grace with which she keeps several plot strands going at once proves that the spirit of Robert Altman lives on in the most unlikely of places. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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