A couple of weeks ago the respectable members of the Academy Awards told us which movies and actors earned their votes for the Bests of the year. A bit surprising was the female best actor winner Marion Cotillard for her role in Edith Piaf. This reminded me about another French film that was out at about the same time, I think it was June of last year - Paris, Je T'aime. All I knew about it was that it starred Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood, Juliette Binoche and many, many accomplished French and American actors. Last night I decided to exercise the power of my fingertips and streamed the movie from Netflix. I only watched the first hour and a half so far, and while Natalie Portman has not appeared yet, the movie took me on the most seductively emotional and a little amusing ride I've ever experienced from a film. It's happy love and sad love and pathetic and innocent and longing and all of it, filtered through my impressionable eyes, made for a lot of wet tissues and very puffy eyes in the morning. Oi, I think I'm crying again... Somebody save the keyboard…