A 1920s French silent film with live music by pianist Jonny Best. A young woman comes to Paris to work at her uncles haberdashery shop only to find that the family business is being crushed by the huge department store opposite. Adapted from Emile Zolas novel, Au Bonheur des Dames is both a stunning evocation of late-1920s Parisian style and a comment on the consumerism of the age. With gliding camerawork and beautiful Paris settings, Julien Duviviers elegiac film was shot in the Autumn of 1929, just as the silent film era was being replaced by the talkies. Frame Ensembles acclaimed improvised scores bring silent cinema into vivid life, each performance a unique and unrepeatable spontaneous musical response to the film.