It's as silky, chic and instantly forgettable as a perfume advert.
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02/23/07
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: Television
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
A very dated and strained sort of gaiety.
02/23/07
Top CriticAccessible and predictable but enjoyable Parisian drama.
02/23/07
Top CriticA polished yet predictable piece of nostalgic, middlebrow entertainment, which underuses an impressive cast.
02/23/07
Orchestra seats are supposed to bring us closer the action, but in the end, this film is definitely more middle row.
02/23/07
There's plenty to enjoy here, even though the film feels utterly fluffy and superficial.
02/22/07
Enjoyable, fluffy comedy drama with superb dialogue and a charming lead performance from rising star Cecile de France.
02/22/07
A predictable piece of middlebrow nostalgia – akin to a French Love Actually – in which all the characters’ emotional predicaments and professional problems are miraculously resolved.
02/22/07
Brasseur’s still got his scuffed charisma, and even Dupontel gets away with his hoary art-for-the-proles act. Et voilà! Charming if you’re in the mood.
02/22/07
The film serves as a timely reminder of the tastefully sybaritic terrain that our own mainstream moviemakers have largely ignored in the commercially driven thirst for blood and gore.
02/21/07
Avenue Montaigne is a tasty specimen of Gallic comfort food: it's well-sauced, it goes down easy and it satisfies.
02/20/07
Avenue Montaigne would be difficult to stomach if it weren’t so light and uninsistent, and if its actors weren’t so charming. I still rolled my eyes -- but sometimes I do that when I get a really good croissant.
02/20/07
Love is in the air, obviously, and so is the smell of mothballs. Fans of Diane Johnson's books (Le Divorce) may fetishize the Paris depicted in Avenue Montaigne, but at times it feels like a diorama of bourgeois natives.
02/17/07
De France finds the hint of sadness beneath the ready smile and knows how to play genuine, self-effacing goodness.
02/16/07
The actual Avenue Montaigne may deserve a visit, but the movie celebrating its artsy glamour isn't quite worth leaving home for.
02/16/07
Its cozy pleasures will do just fine.
02/16/07
The characters are generic in a tres French way, and the predestined happy ending reeks of Hollywood sentimentality.
02/16/07
Rarely has Paris seemed more enchanting than in Danièle Thompson's optimistic ode to Gallic romance.
02/16/07
The screenplay skillfully combines humorous complications with emotional discoveries, and Thompson gives an effervescent charm to her intersecting characters on the Avenue Montaigne.
02/16/07
Cute and deep at the same time.
02/16/07
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