GRAMMAR'S RESPONSE. The word premises is always plural, whether you're referring to the whole of the land and the buildings upon it or just part of the mall (or whatever). So you want are, always. Authority: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Electronic Edition, Version 1.5.
Yonne is a department in the centre of France, in the Burgundy region. The largest city in the department, and its prefecture (capital), is Auxerre.
And the long answer is this plodding film.Leonie (Emily Mortimer, who against all odds creates a credible character) meets and falls in love with a Japanese poet, Yone Noguchi, who is living in New York. She becomes his editor, lover and the mother of his child.