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.
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Paris (2009)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:10
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.6/10
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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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.
09/30/09
Top CriticParis keeps us involved not because of momentous plot developments but because the production incites our curiosity to see what will happen next.
09/28/09
Top CriticWriter-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.
09/25/09
Top CriticKlapisch, who shoots Paris with the eye of someone rapturously in love with the town, is less interested in the reality than the romance.
09/25/09
Top CriticSoggy stuff from French director Cedric Klapisch.
09/25/09
Top CriticIf Paris feels like an Altman film in structure, it lacks the late filmmaker’s bite, not to mention his genuine curiosity about human beings.
09/25/09
Top CriticKlapisch captures the bittersweet quality of those human contacts that seem to hold promise, but life goes by too fast for them to take root.
09/25/09
Top CriticEvery character has life and depth. It's unusual for an episodic film to involve us so well in individual lives; as the narrative circles through their stories, we're genuinely curious about what will happen next.
09/24/09
Top CriticFrom the catacombs to the city's heights, Paris turns an unblinking gaze on the beauty of melancholy and the daring leap toward joy.
09/18/09
Top CriticParis when it fizzles -- which is most of the time -- is a dismal series of character portraits about a cross-section of Parisians mulling turning points in their lives.
09/18/09
Top CriticMr. Klapisch's special gift is to populate his films with perfectly grounded eccentrics who use perfectly ordinary words to express poetic ideas.
09/18/09
Top CriticAlthough Paris makes gestures toward being a top-to-bottom examination of the city’s social fabric, its perspective is solidly middle class.
09/18/09
Top CriticAt a 124-minute runtime, though, the writer-director has stretched a wide canvas, and only sporadically found anything worth filling it with.
09/15/09
Top CriticAuds who like upmarket soap opera, sightseeing and Gallic films where people talk a lot about their relationships will be consistently entertained.
10/18/08
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