“Hello, uh, bonsoir,” the director Christopher Thompson said last week at a screening of his first film, Bus Palladium, at the French Institute on 59th Street. “This is in English, right? I’m sorry I don’t sound more French. It’s always a disappointment.”
Mr. Thompson, who was born in New York City, grew up immersed Read More
Danièle Thompson’s Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils d’Orchestre), from a screenplay by Ms. Thompson and her son, Christopher Thompson (in French with English subtitles), plays out as a perky Parisian Right Bank boulevard comedy with more than the usual traumatically life-altering situations among the self-consciously arty types who frequent the tony neighborhood. Ms. Thompson has said that Read More
Danièle Thompson’s La Bûche , from a screenplay by Ms. Thompson and Christopher Thompson, is the closest thing to a grown-up Christmas picture you are likely to see on the depressingly derivative winter schedule. Unexpectedly, many seasonal American pop tunes punctuate the proceedings, beginning with “Jingle Bells” and including “White Christmas” (sung in French), “I’ll Read More
