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The Girl from Paris (2002)

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Reviews Counted:41

Fresh:37

Rotten:4

Average Rating:6.9/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Mar 21, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: The deeply expressive, down-to-earth Mathilde Seigner stars in this beautiful, scenic film as Sandrine, a 30-year-old woman who has decided to give up her career as a computer engineer in Paris to... The deeply expressive, down-to-earth Mathilde Seigner stars in this beautiful, scenic film as Sandrine, a 30-year-old woman who has decided to give up her career as a computer engineer in Paris to be an agriculturist. She returns to school, which is half textbook work and half hands-on farming experience (viewers may want to cover their eyes for Sandrine's lesson in slaughtering a hog). Soon after, she buys a farm in the Rhône-Alps region of France, a rugged mountainous area where the springtime views and clear air are the payoff for the intense isolated winters. There's only one hitch in Sandrine's plan: the cold and curmudgeonly former owner, Adrien (Michel Serrault), will live on the property for an additional 18 months before leaving the farm to retire. As Sandrine learns to run her new farm, coming up with business innovations of which Adrien could never have dreamed, he looks on in silent admiration but keeps his door shut to her. Finally, the two learn to communicate, teaching each other some valuable lessons. This understated film, which makes the French Alps look like paradise, shows two very lonely sides of life: Sandrine's as a young single woman who has not yet found a companion, and Adrien's as a man in his last years of life whose wife has already passed on. This film was included in the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2002 festival organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. [More]

Starring: Mathilde Seigner, Michel Serrault, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot

Starring: Mathilde Seigner, Michel Serrault, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot, Marc Berman

Director: Christian Carion

Director: Christian Carion
Screenwriter: Eric Assous, Christian Carion
Producer: Christophe Rossignon
Composer: Philippe Rombi

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Cole Smithey
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... a realistic portrait of rural life.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
06/14/07
Jeff Strickler
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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It's a small, simple movie, but, by the end, you feel like you've met two people you'd enjoy hanging with.

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06/14/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
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12/30/06
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12/06/05
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03/31/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Serrault's got all the appropriate nuances of this old codger down pat. I'm beginning to get the impression that it's who he is.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
12/26/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

excluded me at a basic level from its opening scenes on; when it was over, I felt as though I'd never made it in

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12/05/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
Filmcritic.com

Carion has concocted a simple story for complex times, one that realistically examines the passing of the torch from a traditionalist to a neophyte

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04/05/04
Matt Kelemen
Matt Kelemen
Las Vegas CityLife

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02/08/04
Film Threat

[Carion] has honestly involving characters, and does not shirk the necessarily rude side of agri-life.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
01/30/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Pokey and maybe a bit too sincere, but it has its own integrity.

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12/26/03
Jay Boyar
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Orlando Sentinel
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12/25/03
Orlando Weekly

It is a nice character study of two people locked into themselves in different ways, and the slow path they each take to recognize their interdependence.

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12/18/03
Richard Nilsen
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Arizona Republic
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12/15/03
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12/15/03
Jason Solomons
Jason Solomons
Daily Mail [UK]

May linger in the mind as a postcard collection of alluring mountain scenery, but there's not much in the way of lingering alpenglow at movie's end.

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12/13/03
Michael Booth
Michael Booth
Denver Post
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A dance to a post-war ditty shared by old man who misses the daughter he never knew--and a young woman who identifies him as the father of her imagined past.

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11/22/03
Walter Chaw
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