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Friday, January 12, 2018

Paris Can Wait (2017)

This is a small movie that is really very inviting.  The reviews of it were quite critical, perhaps because the maker is the spouse of a well known director.  I did not approach it with any previous knowledge, and was on a long flight, and I found it to be diversionary in a pleasant way.
Ann is the wife of a distracted, all business, no time to play director. In order to strengthen and reinvigorate his marriage, he has brought his wife along on a business trip.  Which goes exactly as you would expect—poorly.  They are in Cannes and headed towards Paris, but he gets called away to Budapest for an emergency on a film that has run into difficulties, and she is going to travel by car with a French man.  He immerses her in the culture on a meandering route through the countryside. The food, the wine, the cheese, the art, all of which demonstrates the French appretiation of what is good in life, and making time for it.  It is a philosophy that resonates with me, and captures some of what I love about travel in France, and I really enjoyed it.

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