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Starring: Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo, Melvil Poupaud, Tim Guinee, Gena Rowlands, Peter Bogdanovich, Roy Thinnes, Michael Panes, Justin Theroux

Directed By: Zoe R. Cassavetes

Many people say that 40 is the new 20 but not for some. This is a story of one of those women who has been facing the torment of being single. She has had enough of her parents saying things about how she needs to find a man. Then after a chance encounter with a French man at one of her friend’s party’s things begin to change from better to worse for her. The feeling she gets from this relationship almost leaves her helpless. The actor who plays the French lover is Melvin Paupaud. He is an extremely tender actor who makes Parker Posey the woman to explore more of her before he leaves to France.

The film takes a turn moment the French man leaves. Parker and her friend after a lot of sessions of their Sex and the City type conversation come to a conclusion that they have to make a trip to Paris to meet this mystery man. So they go and meet and their Aunt in France who is not too happy to have met them. It is here where the film drags because of its unwanted twists that create impediments to the flow of the story. There are also moments of solace that Parker Posey begins to exhibit that is very interesting to watch. Some of the more memorable moments in this film come in a bedroom scene where Melvin’s character leaves her and Parker shows her devastation by holding him on his torso. It is one of the strongest moments in the film and also very enchanting. Parker still goes out in search for him almost an endless journey continues. A journey she has to take that she has no control over. During this time there are also some interesting shots of Paris in the subways that haven’t been taken in cinema. But in the depth of the subways she takes daily after her routine search for Melvin she finds some depressing comfort. The comfort of feeling that he is in the city and she is awfully close to where he is.

After a while this comfort turns into a studied frustration that can be seen by several expressions Parker exhibits. This is where her performance comes to light. It’s not easy to pull an audience through frustration and still make it look endearing. But the film gives into her wait till the very last moment where things turn into a normal Hollywood fare. But it is in her wait that makes this film a little free spirited and memorable.