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07/25/08
Paris (2009)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:41
Rotten:19
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:25-07-2008
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
Reviews for Paris
It's loose in form, but the cast lend a vigor and charm to the mood.
07/25/08
Klapisch throws in so many characters, including Juliette Binoche as Pierre’s sister Elise, that there is no time to enter fully into any of their lives.
07/25/08
An insane amount of dancing can't shake off the heavy feeling we've all been here before, and in the hands of more revealing guides.
07/25/08
Top CriticIt is very difficult, to say the least, to believe in any of the characters.
07/25/08
Top CriticKlapisch slyly uses vignettes and diversions to hide the fact that he has no perceivable endgame.
07/25/08
Top CriticA watchable drama enlivened by a strong cast and some superb location work, but it's not as emotionally satisfying as it could have been.
07/24/08
If the interwoven tales that ensue hold few surprises, a stellar cast brings them spark.
07/22/08
[Klapisch] has created an imperfect but humane ode to his native city.
07/22/08
Top CriticPerhaps the film's key problem is the feeling that Klapisch lets his ambition obstruct his storytelling.
07/22/08
Top CriticAs Klapisch wanders through vignettes of dreams and disappointments, he offers a captivating and never prescriptive paeon to humanity's will to survive.
07/04/08
Top Critic'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.'
12/01/09
Despite some wonderful performances and memorable situations, writer-director Cédric Klapisch ('L'Auberge Espagnole') fails to recapture the warmth of his previous ensemble dramas.
11/27/09
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.
11/07/09
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.
11/04/09
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.
10/29/09
[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...
10/19/09
An explosion of acting, sets and costumes that leaves the viewer with a feeling of near permanent glossiness.
10/19/09
Klapisch's movie boasts passages of genuine magic.
10/09/09
In this overpacked ensemble cast, it's Binoche you want to see more of.
10/09/09
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