LOST IN PARIS

Writer/director team (and real-life couple) Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel star in this incredibly charming homage to the classic romantic comedies of yore, reteaming for their fourth collaboration in decades of working together (you can check out their pitch-perfect YouTube videos). LOST IN PARIS is as goofy as it is delightful—as if a Wes Anderson film courted a Jacques Tati film. When Fiona gets a desperate letter from her Aunt Martha (played by French screen legend Emmanuelle Riva), she leaves her frozen tundra library life in Canada to search for her favorite relative in la Ville Lumiére. And Fiona’s Canadian flag-trek through the streets of Paris paints a beautiful portrait of an incredible city. Enter Abel, the homeless man who stumbles upon Fiona’s purse, using its contents to eat like a king until Fiona, quite literally, falls into his lap. Both characters are awkward, like two swans on roller skates, but their chemistry on screen is undeniable and the film plays to their gangly comic love. In this age of overpriced blockbusters dependent on explosions and darkened moods, LOST IN PARIS is the rare date movie that spreads light. (In English and French with subtitles) —T.W.