Sony Classics Brings Us Eleanor Coppola's "Paris..."
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9:30AM One of the films we've been hearing positive word of mouth out of the glut of TIFF is Eleanor Coppola's Paris Can Wait. Eleanor famously documented her husband Francis Ford Coppola's literal hell shooting Apocalypse Now with Hearts of Darkness, and followed with more behind the scenes documentaries after. Paris is her first narrative film and Sony Pictures Classics just picked it up for distribution. At 80 years old, this first feature from the director will be something to celebrate!
If not TIFF Oscar bait, the film sounds like a lighthearted, mouth watering trip across France: Diane Lane stars as a dispassionately married woman who takes a French road trip with a business associate of her husband to reinvigorate her life. Alec Baldwin and Arnaud Viard are her costars, but we hear the cuisine brings the real romance. Food porn and Diane Lane in Europe sounds like exactly the thing we'll need to cleanse our Oscar palette come spring!
While we, ahem, Wait, what's your favorite food porn or European trip on film?
Reader Comments (10)
Yay for the Coppolas enduring legacy. Diane Lane deserves better than "Martha"
This sounds like Under the Tuscan Sun in France, but that's OK with me, because Diane Lane.
Happy to hear that Diane Lane has a decent role, she should have had many more than she's had through the years.
I suppose to stay within the Diane Lane subject I should say Under the Tuscan Sun for favorite European travel film but honestly the first two that popped into my head were the flyaway Suzanne Pleshette romance Rome Adventure and Katharine Hepburn's Summertime. All three are gorgeous.
Food porn is tougher. Big Night is one but the restaurant scenes in Queen Latifah's Last Holiday feature mouth watering concoctions.
Didn't we already have our "food porn and Diane Lane in Europe" (+ house porn!) in the delicious and underrated Under the Tuscan Sun?
Aw. Diane Lane in Paris makes me think fondly of A Little Romance. God dammit, I'm old.
Another Coppola!!! Yay!!!! I just hope Eleanor is more like her daughter but not like her son Roman though I did like CQ a lot.
Sawyer - I am also here for the Diane Lane Traipses Through Europe Cinematic Universe
For European trips: hands down, the Before trilogy.
Any movie where Diane Lane has an important role sounds promising to me.
Some favorite Euro trips on film:
In Bruges
The Wings of the Dove
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Suddenly, Last Summer
Mahogany
One, Two, Three
The Godfather Part II
Midnight in Paris
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