Synopsis
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
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Cast
- Diane LaneAnne Lockwood
- Arnaud ViardJacques Clement
- Alec BaldwinMichael Lockwood
- Elise TielrooyMartine
- Élodie NavarreCarole
- Serge OntenienteMechanic
- Pierre CuqPhilippe
- Cédric MonnetMusée Des Tissus Guard
- Aurore ClémentConcierge
- Davia NelsonSuzanne
Recommendations
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The Film Stage
One of the sexiest and most joyful road movies in some time. - 75
Observer
Sometimes beauty and charm are enough to turn a middling movie into pure ambrosia. Diane Lane has plenty of both, and she uses them wisely in Paris Can Wait, elevating an otherwise mild and inconsequential film to unexpected heights of enchantment. - 70
Screen Daily
There are touching moments...that could only have come from real life, and the film is all the better for them. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
As it is for the two characters for two days, it’s an escape from real life, from anything consequential, a chance to delight in the pleasures that humans can take from what grows in the earth and from an amiable companion’s company. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
An airy, half-baked meringue of a movie, Paris Can Wait is the kind of film that leaves you famished — not just for la belle vie on screen but for the stronger sustenance of plot and character. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film leaves the lasting impression of a story that takes place in its own elitist and hermetically sealed world. - 40
Village Voice
Imagine The Trip meets Lost in Translation (Coppola’s daughter Sophia’s debut), but with stale dialogue and neither much romance nor comedy - 33
The A.V. Club
As the movie pulls over to look at museum fabrics in vain search of a groove, it turns the audience into its impatient child, threatening to start kicking the back of the car seat any minute now.
