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Avenue Montaigne (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:26
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: A cute and bubbly French comedy that carries no deeper lessons or agendas than to have a little fun for 90 minutes.
Theatrical Release:Feb 16, 2007 Limited
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
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Reviews for Avenue Montaigne
Top CriticA film that seeks to amble it way towards resolution and which offers a few insights and smiles along the way.
04/20/07
Top CriticThe 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.
04/20/07
Top CriticWatching 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.
04/13/07
Top CriticIt'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.
04/01/07
Top CriticAvenue Montaigne is a bon-bon for culture tourists.
04/01/07
Top CriticThompson's crowd-pleaser makes up in refined schmaltz what it lacks in innovation or profundity.
04/01/07
Top CriticWhen it all wraps up as neatly as the treacliest Hollywood film, we don't feel cheated, but rather enjoy the satisfaction of a story resolved, and we're happy for each of the people we have spent our hour with.
03/31/07
Top CriticIf you're not going to Paris this spring -- and let's face it, so few of us are -- the next best thing might be Avenue Montaigne.
03/29/07
Top CriticThat the film succeeds as well as it does despite a series of coincidences that strain credibility is a credit to a fine cast and a joie de vivre that pervades even the most implausible moments.
03/16/07
Top CriticHow much you respond to its calculated charms depends largely on your response to the waif-in-the-big-city appeal of de France.
03/15/07
Top CriticAside from pretty people behaving cutely, though, there's just not much here, and even devoted Francophiles may nod into their cafe crèmes.
03/02/07
Top CriticA fine cast and a realistic touch give the charming farce a sweetness and emotional intimacy.
03/01/07
Top CriticThe picture is very obviously crafted as a fable. Its characters are stereotypes at the beginning, but our focus sharpens as we watch them: They sneak out of the roles we've assigned to them and become people instead.
03/01/07
Top CriticIt may pull you into the tent with a promise of hoochie-koochie girls, but it delivers a rousing sermon on faith, hope and charity before it lets you back out again.
03/01/07
Top CriticIt's formula stuff, to be sure, but full of feeling for the sweep of the past as well as for the unsettled, yearning present. Echoes of Juliette Gréco, Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour haunt the soundtrack.
03/01/07
Top CriticAvenue Montaigne, a delicately charming fable set in Paris, offers the kind of experience we secretly crave when we visit any great city: meaningful encounters with its people.
03/01/07
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticAvenue Montaigne is a tasty specimen of Gallic comfort food: it's well-sauced, it goes down easy and it satisfies.
02/20/07
Top CriticAvenue 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
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