Is there a significance....
why Josephine named the restaurant "Cafe Armande"? If so I didn't get it. I still love the movie!!!
shareThe restaurant is named after Judi Dench's Character - Armande
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You really missed that? Huh.
shareYou really missed that? Huh.
I think it's very easy to miss. This film is unusual in that the characters' names are hardly ever mentioned. I think I can safely say that at the end of my first viewing of this film that I wouldn't have even known Vivian's name. I would have known Josephine's name because it was used more than most but I wouldn't have known many more than that. I definitely would not have known Armande's name.
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There is no Vivian. There's a Vianne...and Armande's name is used fairly regularly, as is Vianne's, Anouk's, and Roux's. Because they're foreign names, perhaps they don't stick in your memory as well.
shareI, too, found myself not remembering names the first couple of times I watched this movie...more than anything, I believe I was just so mesmerized by the characters themselves and the way they each interacted with one another. Notice my reference to the "first couple of times", as I can't resist watching it any time I see it is on!
shareI was familiar with all the names as I've read the book, but like an ignorant English person I read it with an English subconscious, and imagined the names to be pronounced how they're written, and it was really odd to hear them said in French accents because they sounded really different.
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Well, like with 'Clairmont' and Muscat' both having a pronounced 'T' on the end, and just generally as though they would all be spoken with an English accent.
shareAhh yes... once I thought a guy's name was Nicholas for four months, and it turned out it was Nikola all along. Damn French accents.
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I also found myself not remembering any of the characters' names except for the the imaginary kangaroo's name 'Pantoufle'!
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So how would Roux's name be pronounced in French?
Roo? not Rouks?
I would never have picked up Roux's name - or most of the others if I hadn't had the subtitles going at the time.
In the book Josephine named the cafe "Cafe Des Marauds" after the area of the village where Armande had lived.
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