We stepped out of Lamarck-Caulaincourt metro station, where Amélie Poulain held the arm of a blind man and vividly described the street life around them: We wandered the streets of Montmartre, where she lived: Found Café des Deux Moulins, where she worked: Came across her favourite grocery store, where she shopped: And walked up the steps of the… Read More Searching for Amélie in Montmartre
On the way home last September I had the briefest of stopovers in Incheon, Korea. I was rushing home to start my new job and felt like I couldn’t afford to spend more than a few hours in Incheon, even though Korea was a country I had never been to before. Looking back, I’m not… Read More Four hours in Korea
If there’s one thing that French films have taught me over the years, it’s that the French seem to have a hard time believing in romance. Certainly not the Hollywood kind anyway. So perhaps it’s not so surprising that one of the most recent romantic films set in Paris isn’t actually a French one. I first saw… Read More In the footsteps of the most romantic film in Paris
The Travels of Elephant Woman 