Populaire (opens in Cleveland October 4th exclusively at Chagrin Cinemas)

 [POPULAIRE opens in Cleveland on Friday October 4th exclusively at Chagrin Cinemas.]

Review by Pamela Zoslov

The clack-clack-clack-ding! that punctuates Régis Roinsard's POPULAIRE sets off pleasant waves of nostalgia, if, like me, you miss the satisfying sounds and feeling of a manual typewriter. A stylistic and thematic hommage to American romantic comedies of the late 1950s, the movie tells the story of Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François), a shy young woman from a Normandy village who, tired of working in her father's general store and unwilling to marry the son of the town mechanic, dreams of being a secretary. She practices tirelessly on a portable Triumph typewriter. According to Rose, “A secretary means being modern.”