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.
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08/15/07
Dans Paris (2007)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:29
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Guy Marchand, Joana Preiss
Director: Christophe Honoré
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Reviews for Dans Paris
There's a vivid comedy to this family's emotional state of siege, an easy confidence to Honoré's camerawork, and plenty of beautiful bodies.
08/09/07
Top CriticA film that serves as a kind of manic tour through French film history. Ah, l'amour! Ah, le cinema!
08/09/07
A love letter to Paris, an homage to the Nouvelle Vague, and a Christmas family film.
05/04/07
The personal disconnections and interpersonal bonds the film explores are timeless.
09/07/07
As lovely, insightful and warm a family portrait as they come. Duris and Garrel, both cast agains type, are excellent.
11/26/06
the first French film in years that has humanity in its humor
08/07/07
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
Sensitive poignant portrait of the effects of depression and loneliness.
05/04/07
By the time it's over, you feel as if you've taken a graduate course at UCLA film school.
08/15/07
A realistic depiction of the emotional quicksand of depression and its effects on everyone around it.
08/10/07
Dans Paris feels fresh and quirky enough to have been made 30 years ago.
08/10/07
Top CriticInside Paris is that rarity, a genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful, small film, alternately sober and effervescent, steering clear of either heavy-going philosophizing or dreaded whimsy.
05/31/06
The real pleasure of Dans Paris isn't just film-geekery but the more profound joy of recognizing true-to-life characters and watching them heal.
07/20/07
Christmas with the cracked.
08/11/07
With Dans Paris, Christophe Honoré picks up where the early François Truffaut and his comrades-in-cinema left off -- with a playful, liberatory style, and a song in his heart.
08/08/07
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
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
Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment.
08/10/07
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