Sex and la Cité

The movie version of Sex and the City opens May 30 in the U.S. and May 28 here in Paris. As any lover of the HBO series knows, Carrie Bradshaw spent two episodes in the final year living in Paris with her boyfriend Alexander Petrovsky, played by the great dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.

I saw these advertising signs for the film all over Paris. I took this a few blocks to the west of the hotel where Carrie stayed. She would have had this spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower. Several elegant sidewalk cafes are out of view on the right.

The Hotel where Carrie stayed with Alexander was the Plaza Athénée on Avenue Montaigne, just east of the Place de l'Alma. The nearest Metro stop is Alma Marceau. The Seine is a block to the south.

When I asked the bellboys standing in front if location shots were filmed in the lobby, too, they smiled and rolled their eyes. I was obviously not the first tourist to visit the site.

This is the check-in desk in the small, but elegant lobby that appears in the HBO series.

One of the bellboys offered to take my picture in the lobby. Here I am looking very un-French with my Burberry coat and Coach bag.

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