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After sojourns in Barcelona , St. Petersburg and London , the French writer-director Cedric Klapisch has come home to Paris and to Paris.

"Paris" is a classic example of a film with top-notch ensemble performances. Set in the City of Lights, it's the story of chorus dancer Pierre , who is diagnosed with a potentially fatal cardiac ailment and, while awaiting a heart transplant, reassesses his life and the lives of those around him.

He's fiftysomething, bald and a little paunchy but still able to attract the occasional woman out of his league.

FILM REVIEW: THE GIRL FROM MONACO By Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune Movie Critic 3 stars Luxembourg-born director Anne Fontaine's first film, in 1993, was a comedy called "Love Affairs Usually End Badly." That title applies to any number of other films before or since, including Fontaine's newly released and stimulatingly unpredictable ...

Movie Review: The Girl From Monaco The Girl From Monaco is a French farce about old fools and young lovers.

A funny thing happens during this ostensibly fizzy French import: It stops being funny.

No matter how old, successful or powerful you are - and no matter how much in command of your life you may be - love and sex can still make a complete idiot out of you, under the right circumstances.

I truly hated this despicable piece of French misogyny. A straight-laced middle-aged attorney gets his conservative world rocked by a flirtatious TV weathergirl who reduces him to a puddle of pheromones during an important trial.

The Girl from Monaco causes unexpected complications for a sophisticated lawyer and the bodyguard who has been hired to protect him.

"La Fille de Monaco" "The Girl From Monaco" In "La Fille de Monaco" , Bertrand Beauvois is a successful attorney who is hired to represent Edith Lasalle , who's been charged with killing a man with ties to the Russian mafia.

A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil , who turns... A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal.

A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil , who turns him into a complete wreck.

'The Girl from Monaco' [Some sexual content and language.] [Subtitled.] [DVD only] - A delightful, unpredictable, 2007 romantic comedy in which a respected French lawyer unexpectedly falls in love with a free-spirited, promiscuous weather girl while defending an elderly socialite in Monaco who killed her lover after learning that he was sleeping ...