Style: Romantic Comedy
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Minka Kelly, Tom Wozniczka
Operating Time: 99 minutes
Synopsis: In New York, Sydney Worth (Minka Kelly) works for an acquisitions conglomerate specializing in shopping for distressed firms. She is assigned to shut the deal on Chateau Cassell, a French legacy champagne producer deep in debt. Sydney travels to Paris to make her pitch, and learns she is in competitors with different bidders. Throughout an evening out in Paris she meets the good-looking Henri (Tom Wozniczka) at a bookstore, they usually spend a romantic evening collectively. The following day Sydney is shocked to study Henri is the son of Cassell proprietor Hugo (Thibault de Montalembert).
What Works Effectively: Minka Kelly is satisfactory within the central position, with out ever escaping working-girl-seeks-adventure rom-com trappings. The Parisian and French countryside surroundings is crisp, stunning, and scrubbed clear, and undeniably touristy. The French dialogue is allowed to stream freely as vital, and some moments of humour extract some gentle laughs.
What Does Not Work As Effectively: The skinny premise and underpowered forged lead to sluggish pacing and an abundance of filler scenes. In the meantime, the stereotypes are layered in thick globs, most notably the tiresome inventory characters representing Sydney’s rivals: the fun-loving homosexual Spaniard, the stiff and humourless German, and the condescending Frenchwoman. The daddy points between patriarch Hugo and his son Henri (who doesn’t wish to take over the household enterprise) are of the eye-rolling predictable selection, and each lovers are saddled with lacking dad or mum syndrome. Is it even essential to say that the ending is a foregone conclusion?
Key Quote:
Henri: Do you suppose I am flirting with you?
Sydney: Aren’t you?
Henri: Si, absolument.
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