Broken love and dalliances in Paris.
This film has a charismatic cast, blue Paris skies, a fraught situation on the Eiffel Tower, and a sense of luxury living, giving it a great feel. Isobel Walker (played effervescently by Kate Hudson) arrives in Paris to be there for her sister, Roxy, (a luminous Naomi Watts) while she is pregnant with her second child. Unfortunately this is the time Roxy's husband chooses to leave her for another woman. The cast is sparkling: Leslie Caron as Roxy's mother-in-law, Thierry LHermitte as the womanising Uncle Edgar, Glenn Close as the older woman, Olivia Pace, who gives Isobel a job, and the girls' parents, Stockard Channing (always watchable) and Sam Waterston. They all strut their stuff to lift the film to a highly diverting level. Isobel begins a dalliance and affair with the carelessly charming Uncle Edgar, while Roxy struggles to bring her husband (Melvil Poupaud) back home from his love nest with a dizzy Russian. It's Paris meeting America, the two cultures clashing in a quasi civilised fashion with a valuable painting attributed to Georges de La Tour, placed unjustly in the centre of the property settlement.
All the stars above-mentioned work together to make if not an extraordinary movie, then a highly entertaining one. And oh! Paris!
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