Paris Can Wait
- cosy
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
Our read · Paris Can Wait (2016) reads as a cosy, measured, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Paris Can Wait
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