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On screen, do you prefer Americans in Paris or Parisians in Paris?

“I’ve been to Paris, France and Paris, Paramount. I prefer Paris, Paramount,” director Ernst Lubitsch famously remarked. And while on a Hollywood backlot Lubitsch confected an irresistible, glittering city of lights (see his "Trouble in Paradise" and Ninotchka"), ain't nothing like the real thing (see Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."