Stumbled upon this movie at the library, watched it because of the actors. I’m not usually into the Merchant/Ivory productions, but you know it likely has good performances. It was ok.
The story starts in the early-mid 60s when the main-character girl is 7 years old, living in Paris. Her father takes her into a café to play a 4-player bowling-themed “300” (Gottlieb, 1975). The story later skips to when the girl is 14, and her family is about to move back to the States, circa 1970-72. Her father again takes her to the same café to play the same game. This is another case of pinball anachronism, since the machine was only produced a couple of years after, not to mention it being pretty unlikely that the same game would in the same place for that length of time. But hey, it added a certain symmetry to the story...
Seven years later...
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