The Super-Star & the Sandwich: Cotillard & Tartinery

The 2015 Oscar buzz for Best Actress includes the award-winning Marion Cotillard as the depressed wife in Two Days, One Night. Having previously won an Oscar for her spellbinding performance as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose—only the second time an Oscar was awarded a woman for a non-English speaking performance—she’s up against stiff competition that includes Reese Witherspoon, Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike, and Felicity Jones.

French Restaurants '15-16, Theater/Film/DanceBarbara DonskyFebruary 22, 2015Academy Awards, Eloise at the Plaza, Marion Cotillard, Midnght in Paris, Oscars, Plaza Hotel, Tartinery, Woody Allen Comments

Le Musée des Art Forains

Of the thirty-plus locations that Woody Allen used in the film "Midnight in Paris," there wasone I didn't recognize, a part of Paris I had never seen. Do you remember in the film when Gil goes to the 1920s party and meets Adrianna in a room with a carousel? The whole idea was so enchanting, but where could it be? Going on-line, I discovered Le Musee des Arts Forains, the Museum of Fairground Arts. Quickly, I added it to a list of places to visit the next time I saw Paris. After all, if it was good enough for Woody, it was good enough for me.

Art in Paris, Paris WalksBarbara DonskyAugust 24, 2014Arrondissement, carousel animals, Desperately Seeking Paris, Film locations for Midnigth in Paris, Le Musee des Arts Forains, Les Pavillon de Bercy, Museum of Fairground Arts, Paris- Midnight in Paris, steeplechase, twelth arrondissement, Woody Allen, out and about in paris Comments