Nicolas Barreau

Alain Bonnard, owner of a small cinema in Paris, believes in nostalgia. At Cinema Paradis there are no buckets of popcorn, no Hollywood blockbusters. Alain holds firm to his principles - to show films that bring dream to life; make people fall in love. And Alain adores his clientele - particularly the woman in the red coat who always sits in row seventeen... What could her story be?

Finally Alain plucks up the courage to invite the unknown beauty to dinner. But then the woman in the red coat mysteriously vanishes and Alain is forced to take matters into his own hands - he sets off in search of the stranger he has come to love...

Can he find his own happy ending?