Paris Reviews

Less a gourmet meal than a flaky pastry, Paris is a slight but sweet love letter to the urban life of the city of lights...

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Director Cédric Klapisch embraces Parisians' reputation for moroseness with a cast of melancholy, but passionate, characters.

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Despite some wonderful performances and memorable situations, writer-director Cédric Klapisch ('L'Auberge Espagnole') fails to recapture the warmth of his previous ensemble dramas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

[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...

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An explosion of acting, sets and costumes that leaves the viewer with a feeling of near permanent glossiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Klapisch's movie boasts passages of genuine magic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

In this overpacked ensemble cast, it's Binoche you want to see more of.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

...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

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

When it comes to being a fool for love, there are no city limits.

Full Review | Original Score: B

The 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.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

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.

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The movie is filled with brief glimpses of meaningful symbolism.

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Paris keeps us involved not because of momentous plot developments but because the production incites our curiosity to see what will happen next.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

French auteur Cedric Klapisch achieves a sublime use of the City of Lights as a living and breathing body of humanity.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Klapisch, who shoots Paris with the eye of someone rapturously in love with the town, is less interested in the reality than the romance.

| Original Score: 4/5

Klapisch captures the bittersweet quality of those human contacts that seem to hold promise, but life goes by too fast for them to take root.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

What's the French word for Crash? Cédric Klapisch's serendipitous interweaving of the lives of disparate characters in the title city never resorts to the contrivance and manipulation of Paul Haggis's Oscar winner, but there are some close calls.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4