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Rating: R
Release Date: Jun 13, 2003
Running Time: 91 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue French, subtitled English
She's running away from a man she still loves. He's running after a woman he believes he still loves. She is a chatty extrovert who doesn't go unnoticed. He is discret, mild mannered, and totally withdrawn. Felix and Rose are so unready to meet each other--until they are both delayed at a Paris airport and keep running into each other over the course of the day.
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June 19, 2003
Juliette Binoche (an Oscar winner for The English Patient) and Jean Reno (Ronin, The Professional) are both terrific actors. They're the only appetizing thing in this stale French pastry. Felix (Reno) is a frozen-food exec stranded in a Paris airport by weather and strikes. He meets Rose (Binoche), a beautician who is running out on her lover (Sergi Lopez). Felix and Rose talk, compare notes, share a night in an airport hotel and drag themselves through every predictable situation in the script…
June 19, 2003
