Amazon.com video review:
When Dr. Henry Harriston (William Hurt) makes the
uncharacteristically spontaneous decision to swap apartments with
someone in Paris, he opens his life up to the possibility of new
things. The woman who answers his ad is Beatrice Saulnier (Juliette
Binoche), a dancer looking for respite from an onslaught of lovesick
admirers. In New York, Beatrice inadvertently finds herself analyzing
Henry's patients through a series of misunderstandings on their part
that she is his replacement during his vacation. With help from her
friend-secretary Anne (Stephanie Buttle), she continues Henry's
practice and brings light and happiness to his patients, until Henry
himself--who has returned early to New York--shows up and, his
curiosity piqued by what seems to be going on, gains access to
Beatrice as John Wire, a supposed patient of himself. What follows,
and how it ends, makes for perhaps the most charming romantic comedy
to come along in ages, and rivals the great Shop Around the
Corner, Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film. Binoche is impossibly
charming, Hurt creates a wondrously believable suppressed
psychoanalyst reborn through love, and Chantal Akerman as director
pulls it all together with deft skill. --James McGrath
