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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0821575551755
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 22745
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Product Description:
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: Pg13
Amazon.com:
French 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 (Cécile De France, L'Auberge Espagnole) moves from Mâcon to Paris. Upon securing a job as a waitress in a popular café, she meets high-strung soap star Catherine (Valérie Lemercier), burnt-out pianist Jean-François (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 Danièle Thompson (La Bûche) 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Quiet and charming
A young woman Jessica, leaves her home for life in Paris, and finds work as a cafe waitress in the theater district. Her job may not pay much, but she's surrounded by fascinating and sophisticated customers, some very well known. Avenue Montaigne is a gentle but engaging portrayal of a slice in the lives of 6 of them, all of whom are on the edge of making life altering decisions. In the process, Jessica's life as an adult begins, enriched by the experiences of those around her. The ensemble cast was well selected and performs well, and the stories are well told and seamlessly integrated. As it's set in Paris, it isn't necessary to comment upon the scenery. This is a shamelessly feel-good movie for adults, the sort that isn't made in America these days, filled with decency and humor.
Rating:  - I wish I had rented it instead.
The film was simple yet agreeable. However, I am disappointed that I will not be able to show this film in my French classroom due to the language and content. Even if the film was "cleaner," I'm afraid that my students would be bored with the slow and simple plot.
Rating:  - In Paris you will find love!
A woman goes to Paris and takes a job just in the right intersection of three different worlds signed by the efervescencent universe of art. An old man who decides to sell all his artistic collection, a succesful actress who would love to perform as Simone de Beauvior in a film next to start and finally a pianist tired of being succesful, who would enjoy to play for single people far from the crowding world.
Slow but progressively, she will enter and turn around inside the affective existence of these people and will become a fundamental part in the rest of their lives.
A lovable and engrossing romantic comedy that will engage you from start to finish. Don't miss it!
Rating: - French to the Max
Avenue Montaigne is one of those movies that might be considered "schmaltzy" by some. Improbable, to be sure; and had it not been set in Paris, it might not have worked for me. But I found it to be a charming, feel good story with actors who carried their roles lightly and well, and with a great sound track.
Rating: - Pleasant time waster
Country waif Jessica (Cecile de France) moves to Paris and lands a waitress job that allows her to flit about on the fringes of the art world, where she learns that artists are human just like the rest of us. This film is well-made, well-acted, and completely inconsequential. Recommended for Francophiles.
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