European Movies/Europe Locations

[EnLinea Media]

What are your favorite European movies and locations?

[Ann Dys]

Kalimera! I saw My Life in Ruins this weekend. Good news and bad news. Good: the scenes of Athens, Delphi, Olympus, and more are absolutely luscious. Bad: the most cartoonish writing I've seen in a long time...and that includes cartoons! Oh, well, pass the ouzo...

[Wendy Capra]

I just saw Julie & Julia last night, and what a charming movie. It was especially neat to see how they staged postwar Paris -- although I must say, it did look a little on the overly quaint and maybe even fakey side. I mean, this was supposed to be 1949, right? A mere 5 years after the liberation of Paris from the Nazis -- after the trauma of the war, was it really that cleaned up and twee by then, I wonder?

[David Paul Appell]

I loved it, too, Wendy! No idea re the quaint/fakey question, but maybe it did look a little suspiciously "cleaned up."

By the way, on Fodors.com recently I came across an interesting item listing eight places in Paris where Julia Child hung out that you can still visit today:

-The cookware shop E. Dehillerin
-The English bookshop Shakespeare & Company
-Les Halles market
-BHV department store
-St-Ouen/Clingancourt flea market
-And of course, several restos and cafés, of course: Le Gran Véfour, Deux Magots, Au Pied de Cochon

[http://www.fodors.com/news/story_3548.html?ref=53]

Wendy Capra said:

I just saw Julie & Julia last night, and what a charming movie. It was especially neat to see how they staged postwar Paris -- although I must say, it did look a little on the overly quaint and maybe even fakey side. I mean, this was supposed to be 1949, right? A mere 5 years after the liberation of Paris from the Nazis -- after the trauma of the war, was it really that cleaned up and twee by then, I wonder?