Madame

I highly recommend seeing this heartwarming romantic comedy! Madame is full of charming romance, quirky humor, incredible acting and a beautiful Parisian setting. It’s about a wealthy American couple who has their maid, played by Rossy De Palma, disguise herself as a noblewoman in order to even out the number of guests at their luxurious dinner party. This gives the maid the opportunity to find true happiness when she captures the heart of one of their wealthy guests. I couldn’t help but smile as a watched the maid find herself and the courage to follow her heart throughout the course of the film.

Madame is a Pretty Woman tale following a maid named Maria who’s dolled up by her employer, Anne Fredericks, to fill in for a missing guest at a dinner party, who ends up attracting the attention of an art seller named David, and the two begin a relationship, much to the annoyance of Anne. The film presents itself as if the dinner party will be a significant and majority of the film, but it instead acts as a framing device, which allows the audience to see the interworking of the various relationships between characters, which is nice, because there is a certain level of charm that comes from the quirkiness and eccentric nature of the characters, especially of Anne, who’s jealousy and self-destructive behavior is entertaining to watch. Audience members craving a little something extra in addition to a standard love story will find this enjoyable to watch.

Madame is an empowering story of being true to yourself. Rossy de Palma plays a quirky, authentic maid who doesn’t fit the mold of the cold, manipulative upper-class socialite greatly contrasted by Toni Colette's exact portrayal of what you would expect a wealthy, Parisian villa owning socialite to be like. A good romantic comedy.