This third album from the US-born, Paris-based vocalist Victoria Rummler presents a series of captivating duets with a quintet of guitar greats. The album pays homage to the silver screen in stripped down arrangements that offer textural restraint in place of orchestral excess. It opens with a classic Gershwin standard featured in An American in Paris, ‘Love Is Here to Stay’, with Rummler proving herself to be a sweet-toned storyteller in the company of Federico Casagrande. Continuing to celebrate her adopted home in the City of Light, Rummler includes two takes on Maurice Leroux's theme song for the Oscar-winning short film Le Ballon Rouge, which she credits as having ignited her fascination with la belle France, both cast as freewheeling wordless duets with Dano Haider and Federico Casagrande respectively. The pair of film-inspired originals, ‘Frankly’ (an homage to Gone with the Wind) and ‘Casablanca’, are both standouts. There are some sonic surprises too, not least Nguyên Lê's electric guitar heroics on ‘I Wanna Be Loved by You’, a fascinating reinvention of ‘Smile’ complete with Lionel Loueke's percussive guitar work, vocal clicks and glottal stops, plus some nifty mouth-trumpet work from Rummler on ‘Lift to a Scaffold’.