A small-town Canadian librarian searches for her elderly Aunt Martha in the City of Lights. She is aided by a vaguely disreputable Parisian vagabond. Lost in Paris is the new comic collaboration by the married filmmaking duo, Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon.
France,1943 during the German occupation. Every night, guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt delights Parisian audiences with his witty, life-affirming ‘gypsy swing’ music. While many other Romany people find themselves the target of racist persecution, Django believes himself to be safe – until agents of the Nazi propaganda machine demand that he go on tour to Germany in order to counteract the influence of ‘negro music’ from the USA.
Marjorie Prime stars the great character actress Lois Smith. (You might not recognize her name, but you’ve seen her in dozens of movies going back to East of Eden – how many actors working today can say they appeared opposite James Dean?)
