Montmartre dweller Sacha (Elmaleh), a Jewish jazz composer, and Charlotte (Marceau), the head of a Parisian foundation that supports contempo visual artists, literally bump into each other when leaving the chic headquarters of the company that Sacha has written a jingle for and that Charlotte's organization is funded by. The meet-cute moment is more of a "meet wet," as it unfolds in the middle of a rainstorm, and Charlotte falls face down onto the pavement before she's even exchanged two words with Sacha. The scene immediately sets a tone of romantically heightened reality that clearly harks back to classic Hollywood screwball comedies, where it never rains but it pours, and where accidents that would K.O. any normal person are instead clumsily affecting and without long-term consequences.
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