Love in Paris

Infobox Film
name = Love in Paris / Another 9½ Weeks


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director = Anne Goursaud
producer = Yannick Bernard
Staffan Ahrenberg
writer = Characters:
Elizabeth McNeill
Screenplay:
Mick Davis (as Michael Davis)
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starring = Mickey Rourke
Angie Everhart
Agatha de La Fontaine
Steven Berkoff
Dougray Scott
music = Francis Haines
Stephen W. Parsons
cinematography = Robert Alazraki
editing = Anne Goursaud
Terilyn A. Shropshire
distributor = Trimark Pictures
released = 1997
runtime = 105 min.
country = USA / France / United Kingdom
language = English
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preceded_by = "9½ Weeks"
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imdb_id = 0119576

"Love in Paris" is a romance/drama film released in 1997, a sequel to 1986's "9½ Weeks". In the United States, it was in fact released under the title "Another 9½ Weeks". It stars Mickey Rourke, who reprises his original role as John Gray. The film, directed by Anne Goursaud, was released directly to video and received poor reviews. [ [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/482 Review at TheOnion AV Club] .]

Cast

*Mickey Rourke...John Gray
*Angie Everhart...Lea Calot
*Agathe de La Fontaine...Claire
*Steven Berkoff...Vitorio DaSilva
*Dougray Scott...Charlie

Plot

Ten years after Elizabeth (the character portrayed by Kim Basinger in the first film) left him John has descended into a world of depression and loneliness, and is suicidal. But when he receives an invitation to attend an art exhibit in Paris that will feature some of Elizabeth's paintings he immediately boards a plane for France, hoping to get to talk to her. He arrives as the auction house and promptly wins all of her artwork, but Elizabeth is not there. He does, however, see a beautiful woman (Everhart) wearing the exact same shawl that he gave to Elizabeth many years earlier. The woman's name is Lea, and she says that she is Elizabeth's close friend and that Elizabeth is now living in another country, happily married. But John suspects that Lea knows something she is not telling him, and over the course of their conversations it becomes apparent that Elizabeth told her intimate details of her relationship with John. Lea, who is a fashion designer, is obviously attracted to John, and he begins to warm to her as well. They soon begin a passionate affair, but Lea continues to be evasive when it comes to answering questions about Elizabeth. During this time John also becomes close to Lea's assistant, a beautiful young woman named Claire who is in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend. As John comes closer to discovering the truth of Elizabeth's fate he is forced to examine the ways in which his past actions have changed him as a person, and if he can be the kind of lover for Lea that she wants him to be.

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