(From the New York times review) The film opens once upon a time with an old woman’s trembling reminiscence wafting across sweeping images of Paris as touristic and familiar as they are blissful and true. “I always loved luxury,” she tells her granddaughter, Jessica (Cécile de France), but the closest she ever came to it was working at the Ritz Hotel. Jessica eagerly follows her grandmother’s lead: she goes to Paris, lands a waitressing job at an Avenue Montaigne cafe and promptly presses her nose against the glamorous, creative bustle around her. Like us, she is only a visitor to this exclusive realm filled with wondrous talent and expensive habits, a realm that — much like Paris itself — is alive with its own mythologies.
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