One can’t help but wonder if Eiffel is merely a lame fantasy or a particularly spineless form of mythmaking, whittling down as it does one nation’s politically loaded event to the equivalent of an Eiffel Tower key chain with an inscription reading “city of love.”

Beatrice Loayza

The New York Times

Issues of class, wealth and power are woven into the tale but this is a bittersweet love story at heart.