While a Feydeau farce fits well, and the salute to a Brancusi sculpture is sweet, Beethoven piano passages overload the souffle.
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03/16/07
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US 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,... [More]
Starring: Cecile de France, Claude Brasseur, Valerie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel
Director: Daniele Thompson
Reviews for Avenue Montaigne
That the film succeeds as well as it does despite a series of coincidences that strain credibility is a credit to a fine cast and a joie de vivre that pervades even the most implausible moments.
03/16/07
If [Thompson] doesn't always know where to place the camera, her sparkling dialogue and the rich performances she elicits consistently make up for it.
03/16/07
How much you respond to its calculated charms depends largely on your response to the waif-in-the-big-city appeal of de France.
03/15/07
Not a fully great film, but damn near close; witty, charming, and ultimately rather touching.
03/03/07
[Director] Thompson nicely underplays the film's coincidental connections and melodrama, creating a tone that's assured, relaxed and easy to appreciate.
03/02/07
Aside from pretty people behaving cutely, though, there's just not much here, and even devoted Francophiles may nod into their cafe crèmes.
03/02/07
A fine cast and a realistic touch give the charming farce a sweetness and emotional intimacy.
03/01/07
Top CriticThe picture is very obviously crafted as a fable. Its characters are stereotypes at the beginning, but our focus sharpens as we watch them: They sneak out of the roles we've assigned to them and become people instead.
03/01/07
It may pull you into the tent with a promise of hoochie-koochie girls, but it delivers a rousing sermon on faith, hope and charity before it lets you back out again.
03/01/07
It's formula stuff, to be sure, but full of feeling for the sweep of the past as well as for the unsettled, yearning present. Echoes of Juliette Gréco, Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour haunt the soundtrack.
03/01/07
Top CriticAvenue Montaigne, a delicately charming fable set in Paris, offers the kind of experience we secretly crave when we visit any great city: meaningful encounters with its people.
03/01/07
Top CriticAvenue Montaigne doesn't pretend to be deep, but it's precise and observant about the way people of privilege persist in defining themselves by what they lack or long for instead of what they have, or have done.
03/01/07
A souffle of a comedy.
02/26/07
Ah, the hardship of being rich and famous!
02/26/07
Top CriticWithout any change to its essential cosiness, it could surely have been more surprising in its emotional scenes and funnier in its comic ones.
02/26/07
A charming French film about the yearnings of an ordinary young woman and the rich and famous celebrities she encounters in her job as a waitress at a famous Paris bistro.
02/25/07
This richly layered slice-of-ideal-Parsian-life confection wafts with the smell of fresh croissants and Coco Chanel.
02/23/07
It is entertaining, but beady-eyed in its efforts to please audiences attracted to the idea of an old-fashioned Gay Paree.
02/23/07
There is even a shot of lovers embracing against the backdrop of an illuminated Eiffel Tower. How corny can it get? More than is probably good for you, but it does have the unfeignable virtue of charm.
02/23/07
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