Review: French lovers find each other in 'Anaïs in Love'

We first meet the intriguing heroine of “Anaïs in Love,” appropriately enough, when she’s rushing

We first meet the intriguing heroine of “Anaïs in Love,” appropriately enough, when she's rushing. The opening scene of the French romantic comedy has her running down a Paris street with a bouquet of flowers.

She's late, which is a constant thing. Anaïs is late on appointments, late on rent, late on turning in her thesis. So she rushes from one thing to the next, always living in the present, often leaving a little cloud in her wake, relying on her charm and looks. Her ex-boyfriend calls her a “bulldozer.”

“My problem is I'm too carefree,” she admits.

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, the film's director and screenwriter, has crafted a portrait of a maddeningly headstrong yet aimless woman in a sundress, not exactly a manic pixie French dream girl but perhaps adjacent.