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Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 20

Director Christophe Honore updates the pretensions and the charms of the French New Wave for Dans Paris, his poignant yet frustratingly dense film.

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 5

Director Christophe Honore updates the pretensions and the charms of the French New Wave for Dans Paris, his poignant yet frustratingly dense film.

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French sex symbols Romain Duris and Louis Garrel join screen icons Guy Marchand and Marie-France Pisier in writer-director Christophe Honoré's four-character chamber drama Dans Paris (Inside Paris). Duris plays Paul, a young man in his early thirties who splits with his girlfriend. Feeling depressed, he opts to move into a flat with his brother Jonathan (Garrel, who also narrates) and their father (Marchand). The ladykiller Jonathan slyly attempts to talk Paul into a shopping trip to lift his

May 6, 2008

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

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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Moody, mannered and supremely irritating.

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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Dans Paris has a lot of whining about women, interrupted with impulsive trysts and bouts of dancing.

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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The situation is less interesting than Honoré's eclectic style...

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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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.

August 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
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By the time it's over, you feel as if you've taken a graduate course at UCLA film school.

August 15, 2007 Comment
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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.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | Comment
Paste Magazine

... a tribute to the freewheeling energy and youth of the French New Wave.

May 8, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

A maudlin mood piece offering an off-season opportunity to share Christmas with the cracked.

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
EURWeb

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

December 18, 2007 Comment
Manhattan Movie Magazine

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

September 28, 2007 Comment
Salt Lake Tribune

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

September 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

The interview with director Honore packs a welcome intellectual heft to elevate it well above your average DVD extra (including the others included on this disc).

September 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

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.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press

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.

September 11, 2007 Comment
Monsters and Critics

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

September 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Dans Paris (Inside Paris)

I especially like how this film begins, and at the turning point near the middle when things really began to take shape and come together which makes it what it is; an enjoyable piece of French cinema that deals with two brothers trying to make sense of their lives, and a father trying to hold things together despite

April 27, 2010
yona71

Super Reviewer

A tourist and a native look at the same city in radically different ways. A native knows the hidden secrets of a city and can find his way around well. A tourist is just interested in landmarks and cannot navigate without them such as the Eiffel Tower which is how "Dans Paris", a lugubrious and obvious movie where

December 4, 2008
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