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Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Alternately a sharp ensemble dramedy and a love letter to the titular city, Paris is uneven but often striking.
Theatrical Release:Sep 18, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $966,015
Synopsis: The exhilarating new film from Cédric Klapisch (L'Auberge Espagnole), Paris is a cinematic love letter to the city that seems to hide a story behind every corner. While waiting for a heart... [More]
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel
Director: Cedric Klapisch
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When these Parisians actually do connect, the city's magic finally begins to shine. Binoche, in particular, positively glows when things finally go right for her. Still, such moments seem a long time coming, and often feel, well, a bit rushed.
'Seize the Day.' That's the title of a song that plays during the end credits... It's also the trite message of this tedious tapestry-of-life ensemble piece, in which a prettily dying young man advises his man-less sister to 'take a chance on chance.'
Despite some wonderful performances and memorable situations, writer-director Cédric Klapisch ('L'Auberge Espagnole') fails to recapture the warmth of his previous ensemble dramas.
Overlong and with ambitions of grandeur, Cedric Klapisch's enjoyable Paris is an attempt at Trollopean social archaeology that's best received with a shrug and a smile.
It may occasionally seem a little too facile, but all in all the movie scores more points than not and becomes a film of genuine merit.
You can't really argue with a film that tells us we should be good to one another, celebrates the importance of family and suggests we should live our lives to the fullest.
[Y]ou probably cannot ever go wrong with a flick set in the City of Light and starring one of the most luminous actresses ever to grace the arthouse screen...
An explosion of acting, sets and costumes that leaves the viewer with a feeling of near permanent glossiness.
Klapisch's movie boasts passages of genuine magic.
In this overpacked ensemble cast, it's Binoche you want to see more of.
...this Paris is a fantasy unlikely to be encountered by either tourist or resident, but considered as a travelogue for intellectuals, it's an enjoyable way to spend a few hours
When it comes to being a fool for love, there are no city limits.
Perhaps it's time for a moratorium on movies where the trajectories of various people intersect, often portentously, across the tableau of a big city.
Top CriticThe French director Cédric Klapisch is a glib wizard at weaving folks together, but there are too many secondhand characters roving through Paris, his latest ensemble piece.
Top CriticWere it possible for The City of Light to see Nashville or Manhattan, it would probably want to sue for defamation.
This isn't, perhaps, the "best" film ever about my beloved city, but it certainly ranks up there as an ode to the allure of such a celebrated destination.
The movie is filled with brief glimpses of meaningful symbolism.
Paris keeps us involved not because of momentous plot developments but because the production incites our curiosity to see what will happen next.
Top CriticFrench auteur Cedric Klapisch achieves a sublime use of the City of Lights as a living and breathing body of humanity.
Writer-director Klapisch's glossy love letter to Paris, and its yearning, beautifully lighted inhabitants, may not be much, and you may not even believe in its emotional and (discreet) carnal complications moment to moment. But the cast is fabulous.
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