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Change of Address
(Changement d’adresse)

Screening on Film
Directed by Emmanuel Mouret.
With Emmanuel Mouret, Frédérique Bel, Fanny Valette.
France, 2006, 35mm, color, 85 min.
French with English subtitles.

French-horn player David (Mouret) arrives in Paris looking for work with an orchestra, and a place to live. After meeting ditzy blonde Anne (Bel) in the street, he's soon sharing her flat - and, occasionally, her bed, despite her professed attraction to another guy. But then he begins giving music lessons to Julia (Valette), the beautiful, taciturn daughter of a rich woman, and before long he's smitten. For a while, David is happy, Anne is happy, and Julia (as much as she gives anything away) seems happy. Then along comes Julien (Dany Brillant), a smooth-talking restauranteur... With the writer-director himself playing the hapless David, this comedy consistently surprises: from its rapid-fire comic timing to the charmingly surreal string of sexual and romantic frustrations it describes. “Eric Rohmer meets Woody Allen in a comedy of emotional manners that's Parisian to its fingertips” (Variety).

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