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If watching mopey naked French people is your idea of a date night, this is your movie.

Almost overwhelmingly dark and downbeat, which nearly makes the whole thing unwatchable.

A lighthearted riff on heavy themes, Dans Paris is a knowing throwback to the playful, profound works of the early French New Wave.

Dans Paris is an odd, off-kilter drama that lurches along for a while -- the disconnected scenes seem almost to be bumping into each other at random -- until, in the final scenes, it all comes together.

If an admirable attempt at the iconoclastic, Dans Paris is too much film school for an afternoon. Lacks even the modest structure and resolution that most audiences will demand.

The personal disconnections and interpersonal bonds the film explores are timeless.