Love Parisian style lost and regained for two tender souls with the unlikely aid of Cupid, the worlds most abnormal Maitre d', an adoring poodle and surreal circumstances!

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Love Parisian style lost and regained for two tender souls with the unlikely aid of Cupid, the world’s most abnormal Maître d’, an adoring poodle and surreal circumstances! Set in Paris the city of love and light in 2011, LOVE SECOND TME AROUND portrays with humor, pathos and élan the tale of Françoise, a Michelin star owning Restaurateur, and Hélène, a fashion designer in rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. They are but two lonely people desperate for love in a city of over two million. They are highly successful, have friends and live for their jobs yet know time is running out. So Jupiter the supreme God and lover of all things French, sends CUPID God of love to hurry things up with his famous arrow! However Cupid is vain and also has a problem of his own and makes mistake after mistake. It is left to HOBO a lost poodle that also has his own problems looking for a human to take him in - to help advance Hélène and Françoise on their noble quest for love. They both have a strange red birthmark on their right wrists, which is an embarrassment to them and a clever mystery also unfolds into why it is there. Thus begins a love comedy written in the old-fashioned way that is peopled by eccentric dandies and characters in the French fashion complimented by terrific modern CGI imagery. The film also examines lost time in the Proustian way - Lost love, Lost gentility, The possibility of reincarnation, Lost manners, Lost people and lost dogs! LOVE SECOND TIME AROUND starts with Cupid falling from heaven and landing in a grave in Pere Lachaise then climbing and killing two old lovers who believe him to be a ghost. Cupid tries again whilst Françoise is buying flowers for his restaurant as he has no lover and has an accident in his motorcycle sidecar when Cupid misses him and hits the bikes tire. He crashes outside Hélènes fashion store and Françoise meets his future love and is introduced to green-haired Chocolatier Paul who thinks only of the past and holds has his wife’s ashes sewn into his chest in a little rose covered bag. Françoise arrives at “Chez Hydrangea” and meets his Maître d’a great character called Robert, loosely based on the Proustian dandy Count Robert de Montesquiou who nearly steals the film by his antics. One of which is when the chef does not know how to cook an old Grenoble dish, Robert conducts a séance to find out from the long dead Ritz Chef the famous Escoffier! Hobo also tries to set up love for the hapless couple with a lot of trouble only to himself! Later on Hélène leaves her fashion house hoping to find Françoise and ends up in a coffin with him made for two in another accident arranged by cupid. They finally meet in a café and then try to see more of each other despite saying the wrong things and insulting each other. Françoise gets stuck in a lift and Hobo saves the day. Things slowly develop with strange coincidences and characters amongst the exquisite scenery of Paris. They promise to marry after six months and meet at Notre Dame to discuss the ceremony. But Hélène is late and Cupid makes a mistake again, and in a hilarious scene, Hobo who has been doused with the same perfume of Hélène hops into the confessional and listens to Françoise express his love. They now are undecided about love and think it will never happen to them. Meanwhile Robert show that he does have a heart of gold and goes to the annual rose festival in Grasse in the Riviera and buys a secret rose remedy assured to bring love. Hélène and Françoise decide to go on a holiday to forget each other and unknown to each other both end up in the Normandy seaside town of Cabourg. On arrival strange things occur. Françoise knows where things in the Grand Restaurant were back in 1920, Hélène finds her old 1920 cottage without directions and Psyche, the wife of Cupid, appears as an old woman and tells Hélène the story of Benoit and Celeste two lovers in 1920 denied by fate to miss out on love and die. They both commit suicide by cutting their right wrists. Have Hélène and Françoise lived before? Are the marks on their wrists proof of a past life? And if so will they find love second time around? Cupid finally connects his arrow to them and love is all around. Cupid all along has been short sighted and needed glasses and his vanity has caused much lost love over the centuries. Hélène tries to cure Françoise’s fear of lifts in a great scene at the Eiffel Tower, which nearly results in love being lost and not regained! They return to Paris and marry having a great party at “Chez Hydrangea’ and leave on another great potential sequel adventure with Hobo and Robert. The film contains the evocative scenery of Paris and the Normandy seaside towns. It also could contain a hit soundtrack with music from Léo Ferré Jacques Brel, Marin Marais and songs of the era.