Orchestra Seats

French drama about the residents of the theatre district and their dreams of fortune and fame.

Seen through the eyes of an impressionable countrygirl waitress in a local café, the lives of the locals appear fantastic and important yet they're all secretly wrapped up in their own private dissatisfactions.

A millionaire businessman frets about the impending auctioning off of his precious art collection; a classical pianist is booked six years in advance but longs only for a different gig; a popular TV star dreams only of film success and has a chance with a visiting American film director.

Filmed against a breathtakingly quixotic view of Paris and with a soundtrack of Gilbert Bécaud's music, Orchestra Seats is a lighthearted, romantic modern love letter to the city of lovers.