Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils d'orchestre) (Orchestra Seats) (2006)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 97
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 25
A cute and bubbly French comedy that carries no deeper lessons or agendas than to have a little fun for 90 minutes.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 3
A cute and bubbly French comedy that carries no deeper lessons or agendas than to have a little fun for 90 minutes.
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A fresh-faced orphan from the provinces labors away at the last old-fashioned café on Avenue Montaigne as the Paris theater elite prepare for the biggest night of the year in Jet Lag director Daničle Thompson's whirlwind comedy of intersecting lives. Jessica (Cécile De France) may have been orphaned at the tender age of four, but her doting grandmother (Suzanne Flon) did her best to bring the motherless girl up right. A one-time ladies' room attendant at The Ritz, Jessica's grandmother was a
Nov 8, 2006 Wide
Jul 17, 2007
$1.9M
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Cécile De France
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Valérie Lemercier
Catherine Versen -
Albert Dupontel
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Claude Brasseur
Jacques Grumberg -
Dani
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Christopher Thompson
Frederic Grumberg -
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Sydney Pollack
Brian Sobinski -
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All Critics (102) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (25) | DVD (6)
A film that seeks to amble it way towards resolution and which offers a few insights and smiles along the way.
Top CriticEven if this fine French meal isn't as rich or feels a little less than it might have been, it's still delightful to sit through, course after winning course.
The movie is as airy as a spun-sugar dessert, but Thompson's observations on the artistic life are both affectionate and knowing: Beauty and wealth, though inevitably compelling, are appreciated as means to humane ends, not goals in themselves.
Watching the charming Avenue Montaigne makes you realize not only how much we miss when mainstream French films are not on the movie menu, but how much we miss when American studios define 'romantic comedy' so strictly.
It's one of those 'what's-not-to-like' movies, a fantasy about life and Paris that passes painlessly, a trifle elevated by its Parisian settings and our desire to lose ourselves in them.
Avenue Montaigne is a bon-bon for culture tourists.
If you think about it, you'll realize how flimsy-and even lazy-it is; if not, you'll likely give in to its airy charms.
Life and Art come together in Avenue Montaigne, a charming and accessible French export. Not too fluffy, not too deep %u2014 just right.
A light, frothy, intoxicating romantic comedy.
Filled with sentimentality, pretensions, unfulfilled ambitions and a host of dull characters faced with life threatening problems that verge on the ludicrous.
Una comedia simpática y pintoresca, si bien peca de algo de ingenuidad, cierta superficialidad dramática y una indefinición de tono que le quitan interés y credibilidad.
[Director Daniele] Thompson has a light touch and an upbeat style that keeps the film flowing through the stories...
a frothy confection that, much like its characters, often seems at odds with its own ambitions.
Daniele and Christopher Thomson's marvellously crafted script brings all the characters to life as they struggle to shake the worlds in which they live
There are French movies that are clearly made with a French audience in mind, and there are other French movies that have a non-French audience in mind. Daniele Thompson's "Avenue Montaigne" seems to be aimed at a third, highly-specialized audience; peopl
While AVENUE MONTAIGNE is something of a trifle (which makes it easy to understand why it did not garner an Oscar nomination when there were far more deserving features), it still is a pleasant and enjoyable movie.
Something like 'Love Actually,' in Gallic.
This is one of the wonders of Paris, I imagine, or at least of being rich in Paris: Even your misery plays like a fairy tale. In Avenue Montaigne, miserable souls are as common as raindrops, and each one is a portrait of privileged existentialism.
You know where to find "Avenue Montaigne." It's in Paris, near the intersection of Sappy Circle and Derivative Drive.
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Foreign Titles
- Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils d'orchestre) (DE)
- Orchestra Seats (Fauteuils d'orchestre) (UK)
