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Byline: ELISABETH FRANCK-DUMAS editor: Valerie Steiker
A stylish quartet gives rock 'n' roll a French twist.
Friends since childhood, the four 30-something members of Phoenix are endearingly well mannered for a French pop sensation, but perhaps that's to be expected of young men raised in the conservative suburb of Versailles. Emerging in the late 1990s, the band rose to fame after their single "Too Young" was featured in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation . (Lead singer Thomas Mars later became Coppola's partner and is father to their two-year-old daughter, Romy.) On a photo shoot in an artist's studio near Paris, the quartet enthusiastically embrace the low-key ...