Les passages

A year after a turbulent break-up, gamine filmmaker Catherine flees New York for Paris, the city of her teenage dreams, remembering it as super-cool like 60s genre movies or mysterious and tragic, like 19th century French novels. Hoping to lose herself in the anonymity of another city, she convinces her crew, and her photographer daughter Claire, to help her shoot her very American movie in Paris, because "Paris suburbs remind me of New Jersey." Upon arrival, she sets out to invent both the New Jersey landscape of her childhood, and the Paris (long out of fashion and memory) of the boulevards and snack bars and arcades, with poets in Montparnasse cafes, and card games in the wooden galleries of the Palais Royale. Throwing herself into the production of her movie by day, and wandering the streets, flaneur-like by night, she is determined to forget the past. But a chance meeting in the flea market at Clignancourt with the beautiful Anna, the actress playing her mother in her movie, sets her life, and heart, on another course.