Irish Film Institute -PARIS-MANHATTAN

PARIS-MANHATTAN

Director: SOPHIE LELLOUCHE

79 minutes, France, 2012, Subtitled, Colour, D-Cinema


SCREENING EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

Alice doesn’t seem to have the best luck in love, though that doesn’t stop her family forever trying to get her paired off. The most important man in her life is on a poster on her wall however – it’s Woody Allen, who talks to her, offering philosophical advice, even prompting her to hand out his DVDs as medication in the pharmacy she runs. Yes, the French admiration for Monsieur Woody gets a quirky run-out here, adding a Play it Again, Sam twist to a Parisian romance-cum-family-drama which echoes the rest of the Allen filmography as it skitters along.

Dotty heroine Alice Taglioni and lugubriously unlikely love interest Patrick Bruel both have enough screen presence to hold their own, though it wouldn’t be giving too much away to suggest that this frothy divertissement also finds room for a ‘surprise’ guest star . . .  (Notes By Trevor Johnston.)

IFI IRISH SHORT
This screening will include the IFB-funded short film Revelation by Jane Lee. A simply drawn tale of opening up and shutting down. A poignant reminder of youth. (3 mins, Ireland, 2007.)

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