When chronicling a Paris trip, you aren’t supposed to write about your first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower or the time you spent tiptoeing about it, taking photographs in the wide-eyed touristy way. It’s much cooler to pretend you barely noticed this most over-familiar of landmarks, never mind that it was a constant presence, winking down at you like the all-seeing Eye of Sauron wherever you went. Rani, the heroine of the Hindi film Queen—a homespun but plucky young woman who decides to go on her Paris honeymoon alone after her fiancé cancels the wedding—knows something about this. She wants no truck with the tower (it brings back sad memories of her boyfriend’s romantic promises), but finds she can’t escape it.