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Avenue Montaigne (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 92 Fresh: 68  Rotten:24 Average Rating: 6.5/10
 
Consensus: A cute and bubbly French comedy that carries no deeper lessons or agendas than to have a little fun for 90 minutes.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Theatrical Release: Feb 16, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $1,933,592

Synopsis: The charming Cecile de France sizzles as a waitress with a dream in the French romantic comedy AVENUE MONTAIGNE. Directed by Danièle Thompson (JET LAG) and written by Thompson and her son, Christopher (who also plays a major role in the film), AVENUE MONTAIGNE takes place on the fashionable... The charming Cecile de France sizzles as a waitress with a dream in the French romantic comedy AVENUE MONTAIGNE. Directed by Danièle Thompson (JET LAG) and written by Thompson and her son, Christopher (who also plays a major role in the film), AVENUE MONTAIGNE takes place on the fashionable Paris street from which the film takes its name. People from a theater, an auction house, and a concert hall gather in and around a central bistro where Jessica (de France) has wiggled her way into a temporary job, having just moved to the big city. At the auction house, Jacques Grumberg (Claude Brasseur) is selling off his lifelong art collection and trying to reconnect with his son, Frédéric (Christopher Thompson). At the concert hall, classical pianist Jean-François Lefort (Albert Dupontel) is tired of being on the road and wants to settle down into a more easygoing lifestyle, much to the consternation of his manager/wife, Valentine (Laura Morante). Meanwhile, at the theater, soap opera star Catherine Versen (Valérie Lemercier) is trying desperately to impress director Brian Sobinski (Sydney Pollack) in order to play Simone de Beauvoir in his next film. And in the middle of it all is wide-eyed Jessica, who has an innocent love of life that captures the heart of just about everyone she comes into contact with. Reminiscent of such fine French films as LOOK AT ME and VA SAVOIR, AVENUE MONTAIGNE features unique, interesting characters, excellent acting, and a lot of fun and fascinating talk about art, music, theater, food, and other cultural delights. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Cecile de France, Claude Brasseur, Valerie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel, Laura Morante

Director: Daniele Thompson
Screenwriter: Daniele Thompson, Christopher Thompson
Composer: Nicola Piovani

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 17, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 16.9

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - French
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind the Scenes - Making of AVENUE MONTAIGNE
  • Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

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06/01/07
Sydney Morning Herald
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Daniele and Christopher Thomson's marvellously crafted script brings all the characters to life as they struggle to shake the worlds in which they live

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05/25/07
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08/07/08
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review
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6/10

Life and Art come together in Avenue Montaigne, a charming and accessible French export. Not too fluffy, not too deep %u2014 just right.

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02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com
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A light, frothy, intoxicating romantic comedy.

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01/12/08
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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C-

Filled with sentimentality, pretensions, unfulfilled ambitions and a host of dull characters faced with life threatening problems that verge on the ludicrous.

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12/07/07
Dennis Schwartz
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2/5

Una comedia simpática y pintoresca, si bien peca de algo de ingenuidad, cierta superficialidad dramática y una indefinición de tono que le quitan interés y credibilidad.

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08/22/07
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
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3/5

a frothy confection that, much like its characters, often seems at odds with its own ambitions.

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07/02/07
Anton Bitel
musicOMH.com
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2/4

There are French movies that are clearly made with a French audience in mind, and there are other French movies that have a non-French audience in mind. Daniele Thompson's "Avenue Montaigne" seems to be aimed at a third, highly-specialized audience; peopl

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05/25/07
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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While AVENUE MONTAIGNE is something of a trifle (which makes it easy to understand why it did not garner an Oscar nomination when there were far more deserving features), it still is a pleasant and enjoyable movie.

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05/07/07
Ted Murphy
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2/4

Something like 'Love Actually,' in Gallic.

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05/04/07
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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3/4

This is one of the wonders of Paris, I imagine, or at least of being rich in Paris: Even your misery plays like a fairy tale. In Avenue Montaigne, miserable souls are as common as raindrops, and each one is a portrait of privileged existentialism.

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04/26/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle
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2.5/4

You know where to find "Avenue Montaigne." It's in Paris, near the intersection of Sappy Circle and Derivative Drive.

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04/25/07
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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A film that seeks to amble it way towards resolution and which offers a few insights and smiles along the way.

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04/20/07
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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8/10

A warm-hearted French confection, the sort of breezy, lightly sophisticated boulevard comedy that was once plentiful in Gallic cinema, and makes a happy comeback here.

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04/20/07
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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4/5

Even if this fine French meal isn't as rich or feels a little less than it might have been, it's still delightful to sit through, course after winning course.

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04/20/07
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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While this sort of thing can easily devolve into bourgeois comfort food, Thompson, a veteran of the genre, knows how to serve it up just about right.

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04/20/07
Marc Mohan
Oregonian
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2.5/5

Outside of some lovely encounters between Jessica and her beloved grandmother, the film seems mostly obvious and two-dimensional. And with subtitles.

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04/20/07
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
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3/4

The movie is as airy as a spun-sugar dessert, but Thompson's observations on the artistic life are both affectionate and knowing: Beauty and wealth, though inevitably compelling, are appreciated as means to humane ends, not goals in themselves.

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04/20/07
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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