Paris can wait
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| German title | Paris can wait |
| Original title | Paris can wait |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Eleanor Coppola |
| production | Eleanor Coppola, Fred Roos , Michael Zakin |
| music | Laura Karpman |
| camera | Crystel Fournier |
| cut | Glen Scantlebury |
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Paris can wait (Original title: Paris can wait ) is a romantic comedy by director Eleanor Coppola from 2016 with Diane Lane , Arnaud Viard and Alec Baldwin in the lead roles.
action
Michael Lockwood, an American film producer, is returning from a visit to the Cannes Film Festival with his wife Anne . For professional reasons he has to fly to Budapest before going on vacation together in Paris. Anne wants to accompany her husband in the private jet, but cannot fly because of her ear infection. Jacques, a business partner of Michael, offers to take Anne to Paris by car. So the two drive with Jacques' old Peugeot 504 towards Paris.
Jacques uses this drive to bring Anne closer to the scenic and culinary advantages of France. During the trip Anne repeatedly takes pictures with her little Leica, especially the appetizing dishes and glasses with drinks in the restaurants. Because Jacques' wallet was lost, he asked Anne for her credit card, which was used to pay all bills on the way. Anne finds it strange to have to pay for the travel expenses, but she is silent.
The two stop at the Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard , and Anne takes a whole series of portraits of her companion. During a refueling stop, Jacques disappears with his car and returns shortly afterwards with a back seat full of roses. Later, when the car breaks down, there is a fantastic picnic basket in the trunk, the contents of which the two of them eat on a picturesque hill above the Rhône . Anne can temporarily repair the broken fan belt with her pantyhose. Since the mechanic in the next village refuses to repair this wreck of a car, they have to switch to a rental car.
Anne spends the night in a hotel room booked by Jacques, but Jacques probably with the waitress who greeted him as an old friend. Before that, they dine extensively in the adjoining gourmet restaurant, and Jacques spoils them with chocolate desserts, their “secret vice”, as she says. After a few glasses of wine, the two talk openly about happiness and Jacques' past love. Anne enjoys the attention she gets from Jacques. Michael, Anne's self-centered husband, contacts her by phone. He is very worried because she is traveling alone with a Frenchman at her side and should actually have been in Paris a long time ago. The next day the two arrive in Lyon . In the Musée Lumière in Lyon they meet Martine, a friend of Jacques. Martine and Jacques withdraw under a pretext, while Anne gets a private tour of the museum. After an extensive lunch, the three of them visit a fabric museum , the Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs , where Anne photographs extensively details of the fabrics on display. When Jacques looks at the photos in the camera, he is enthusiastic about her attention to detail and advises her to practice photography professionally.
After a visit to the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Cathedral in Vézelay , where Anne talks about her baby from her first marriage, who died of a heart defect after just 39 days, Anne and Jacques reach Paris after an extensive dinner. Anne lives in a friend's apartment. Jacques confesses his affection for Anne and kisses her. Anne finally seems to succumb to his charm, but then rejects him unequivocally. He asks her for one of her photos and wants to meet her in San Francisco a few weeks later.
The next day, Jacques sent her chocolate and the cash for the expenses that were paid for with Anne's credit card.
Reviews
The reactions in the press were mixed. The critic of the world writes: "In view of" Paris can wait "one wonders why Mr. Coppola did not stop his Mrs. Coppola from delivering such a Schmonzes." While the Viennese press discovered positive things in the film: " Above all, Coppola's film captivates with a staging serenity that many young filmmakers miss, ”says Andrey Arnold.
The Frankfurter Rundschau calls the film "[...] an old work in several respects - incredibly serene, full of tender irony and full of devotion to the splendor of the south of France, whether it consists of scenic or culinary charms."
The reaction in the USA was not very friendly, some critics did not like the fact that most of the laughter was at the expense of the Americans: the campaigns against smoking, bad food, rubber cheese and roses, from which the scent was bred.
publication
The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2016.
Synchronization
The dubbing voice of Diane Lane is Arianne Borbach , of Alec Baldwin Klaus-Dieter Klebsch and Patrice Luc Doumeyrou the role of Arnaud Viard.
background
Eleanor Coppola worked on the film script for six years. The trigger for the road movie was a trip from Cannes to Paris, which she made in 2009 after the film festival , accompanied by a business partner of Coppola . The trip lasted longer than planned and, as she says, unexpectedly turned into a gastronomic journey, which in retrospect turned out to be an “eye-opening” and “liberating experience ” ( a trip that turned out to visit an eye-opening and liberating experience ) . Jacques refers twice in the film to pictures by French painters, which are briefly faded into the film. During the picnic, he mentions the Luncheon on the Grass by Édouard Manet . During the last dinner, when the two dance briefly together, he tells of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's dance in Bougival .
The film is the first feature film directed by Eleanor Coppola. She previously made several documentaries.
Web links
- Paris can wait in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shirley Sealy: Idyll Thoughts: 'Paris Can Wait' for Eleanor Coppola and Diane Lane in: Filmjournal, May 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Paris can wait . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Paris can wait . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Barbara Möller: Why didn't anyone stop Mrs. Coppola from doing this Schmonzes? Welt.de, July 14, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017
- ↑ Die Presse: “Paris can wait”: Gourmet trip through France , accessed on July 19, 2017.
- ↑ Frank Olbert: Slow Food Weekend in Southern France in: Frankfurter Rundschau, July 14, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017
- ↑ Jeannette Catsoulismay: Review: 'Paris Can Wait,' at Least Until After the Crème Brûlée in: The New York Times , May 10, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017
- ↑ Paris can wait, synchronized files accessed on April 19, 2018
- ↑ Shirley Seale: Idyll Thoughts: 'Paris Can Wait' for Eleanor Coppola and Diane Lane Filmjournal, May 3, 2017, accessed March 14, 2019