This video is just under 7 minutes, and one of my favorites of all time. It's a vignette from a longer film called "Paris, je'taime." The movie is a compilation of 18 different smaller films, like this one, each set in a different neighborhood in Paris, and each directed by someone different. This one is about Montparnasse (the 14th), the neighborhood I lived in when I studied abroad a very long time ago, and the neighborhood Chris and his wife Joelle live in (they live around the corner from my old phonetics class). It's written and directed by Alexander Payne, an American.
It's about an unmarried postal worker from Denver who takes a "French for adults" class, and after two years of saving up her money goes on her first ever trip to Europe, to Paris. I get chills every time I watch the ending of this thing. Please do give it a look.
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One of my favorite videos of Paris, and favorite vids of all time
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