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Da, florile au fost, și sunt pentru tine, și la Cafe' Procope (O fi fost p'acolo și marele român Procopiu cu studii la Sorbona--Sorbonne?)

By Robert Bell
An assumption about Jean-Marc Vallée's latest dalliance with artifice, Café de Flore — a superficial music video masked as highbrow art house cinema — is that it was inspired by Sigur Rós's video for "Svefn-G-Englar," seeing as halfway through the movie, the song plays while a slow motion montage shows two children with Down's syndrome falling in love.

Seemingly, he's mirrored his emotional experience with the video to his own life — or at least the stereotypical life of a privileged, solipsistic, 40-year-old white man — to create an exceedingly superficial treatise on the uncompromising power of love.