If you get the chance, go see Fauteuils d'orchestre, the French movie of French movies. Scenes of Paris, check. Existential angst, check. Cute gapped toothed French girl with short hair, check.
From the IMDB plot synopsis:
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next to a theater. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and begin to have her own dreams of fame...
And then there is Cashback. To call this movie brilliant is too much. It's not that good. But it is amazingly good. The camera work edgy, the entire premise edgy. (Insomniac on the nightshift of a 24 hour supermarket can stop time, or at least he thinks he can.) The writer and director, a man named Sean Ellis expanded his Oscar nominated short film (also called Cashback) to make this movie. This just shows (a) he is unimaginative and (b) when you have a good thing going, run with it.
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