I watched this off Amazon Prime over the weekend, and I like Kevin Kline in just about anything I see him in, this is no exception. He stars as a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to liquidate a huge, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers a refined old woman (Maggie Smith), living in the apartment with her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas).
The principle leads are all good in this, and the locales are sure nice, but I think where this film goes wrong is it tries to be too much of a romantic comedy, when I think it would've worked best if the focus had stayed on the relationship between Smith and Kline's characters. There was quite a bit of history between them through Kline's character's father, and that I think was enough to fuel the film- all manifesting through this apartment they are both trying to obtain-?? But overall, I would definitely recommend this if you're up for a good quiet and amusing little film without a lot of explosions, and running and jumping and shooting-?? LOL
The principle leads are all good in this, and the locales are sure nice, but I think where this film goes wrong is it tries to be too much of a romantic comedy, when I think it would've worked best if the focus had stayed on the relationship between Smith and Kline's characters. There was quite a bit of history between them through Kline's character's father, and that I think was enough to fuel the film- all manifesting through this apartment they are both trying to obtain-?? But overall, I would definitely recommend this if you're up for a good quiet and amusing little film without a lot of explosions, and running and jumping and shooting-?? LOL