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.
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07/20/07
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
Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be.
08/10/07
The deftly executed Dans Paris is simultaneously a love-letter to the titular city, an affectionate homage to the French New Wave, and a moving study of a middle-class family haunted by the suicide of a teenage daughter.
05/04/07
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
The film becomes overcrowded with its irreverent touches and eccentric interludes, which increasingly feel strained and awkward.
08/10/07
A love letter to Paris, an homage to the Nouvelle Vague, and a Christmas family film.
05/04/07
The situation is less interesting than Honoré's eclectic style...
08/31/07
Top CriticDans Paris has a lot of whining about women, interrupted with impulsive trysts and bouts of dancing.
08/31/07
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
When the depressed Paul jumps from the bridge into the Seine, I was hoping he'd not swim ashore. There is not a character here that one could care about.
08/01/07
Empty and narcissistic New Wave homage from the unashamedly pretentious Christophe Honoré .
05/04/07
Almost overwhelmingly dark and downbeat, which nearly makes the whole thing unwatchable.
09/27/07
Sensitive poignant portrait of the effects of depression and loneliness.
05/04/07
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
Like a 90-minute toothache-twinge.
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
The film is too wrapped up in some rather uninteresting bits of cleverness to bother making you believe in or care about the characters.
05/04/07
The personal disconnections and interpersonal bonds the film explores are timeless.
09/07/07
Moody, mannered and supremely irritating.
09/07/07
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