Dans Paris (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 50 Fresh: 30 Rotten:20 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus:
Director Christophe Honore updates the pretensions and the charms of the French New Wave for Dans Paris, his poignant yet frustratingly dense film.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 8, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Guy Marchand, Joana Preiss, Alice Butaud
Director: Christophe Honoré
Screenwriter: Christophe Honoré
Producer: Paulo Branco
Composer: Alexandre Beaupain
Screenwriter: Christophe Honoré
Producer: Paulo Branco
Composer: Alexandre Beaupain
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It shouldn't work, but it does, as a vibrant, modern re-imagining of the New Wave aesthetic, at once mopey, sweet, playful and madly in love with Americana and cinema itself.
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06/09/08
will induce a shortage in precious vacation days, stirring up visions of oneself mimicking the carefree Jonathan, gallivanting about Paris without a care in the world
12/18/07
If watching mopey naked French people is your idea of a date night, this is your movie.
09/28/07
Almost overwhelmingly dark and downbeat, which nearly makes the whole thing unwatchable.
09/27/07
A lighthearted riff on heavy themes, Dans Paris is a knowing throwback to the playful, profound works of the early French New Wave.
09/21/07
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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.
09/13/07
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.
09/11/07
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The personal disconnections and interpersonal bonds the film explores are timeless.
09/07/07
Dans Paris has a lot of whining about women, interrupted with impulsive trysts and bouts of dancing.
08/31/07
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Dans Paris is limned with human stumbling, snatches of temporary joy laced with existential disquiet and the desperation of souls at sea in a sterile universe but not to be denied grasps of pleasure.
08/30/07
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By the time it's over, you feel as if you've taken a graduate course at UCLA film school.
08/15/07
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There's something breathtaking about this melodically melancholic homage to the French New Wave and the City of Lights herself ... as modernly poignant as it is retro-seductive.
08/15/07
A realistic depiction of the emotional quicksand of depression and its effects on everyone around it.
08/10/07
Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be.
08/10/07
This is a small film, but it is wonderfully rendered and surprisingly resonant.
08/10/07
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