Directed and co-written by Danièle
Thompson (“La Bûche,” “Jet Lag”), and selected as France’s
Official Entry for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Film
Oscar, AVENUE MONTAIGNE centers around Jessica (Cecile de
France) a beautiful young woman from the provinces who comes
to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on
fabled Avenue Montaigne, the city’s nexus for art, music,
theater and fashion. Jessica’s customers include a popular
TV actress (Valérie Lemercier) who is courting a major
Hollywood director (Sydney Pollack) for her first serious
film role; a wealthy art collector (Claude Brasseur) who is
about to liquidate a lifetime’s worth of treasures at
auction; and an illustrious classical pianist (Albert
Dupontel) who is at odds with his manager/wife (Laura
Morante) as to where his career is headed. Precisely because
Jessica doesn’t know how celebrated these people are, her
guileless and completely unintimidated engagement in their
lives has a transforming effect on them – and ultimately
her.
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