A Lady in Paris

Une Estonienne à Paris
Ilmar Raag
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2013

February 28 - March 10, 2013

North American Premiere! 

Director Ilmar Raag in person on March 4!

A stunning, flinty and memorable Jeanne Moreau is the living, breathing center of Raag’s chamber drama of the testy, complicated relationship between an elderly Estonian woman in permanent Parisian exile (Moreau) and her wary Estonian maid (Laine Magi).

DIRECTOR
Ilmar Raag
YEAR
2012
COUNTRY
France / Belgium / Estonia
RUNTIME
94 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Une Estonienne à Paris
START DATE
March 1, 2013

North American Premiere!

Director Ilmar Raag in person on March 4!

Offered a job in Paris to look after a fellow Estonian-born woman, Anne leaves her homeland and finds herself in an emotional hornet’s nest. Frida, the elderly Estonian, gives new meaning to the word prickly and won’t be tended to, even though that’s exactly what Frida’s younger ex-lover wants. Stars a stunning, flinty and memorable Jeanne Moreau, Laine Magi and Patrick Pineau.

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