Paris |  | Director: Cédric Klapisch
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, Mélanie Laurent
Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
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Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MPIDIFC9716D
UPC: 030306971698
EAN: 0030306971698
ASIN: B002VKB0M4
Release Date: March 16, 2010
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Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 02/23/2010 Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Nr
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In Paris, a superb cast led by by Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Juliette Binoche (The English Patient,Caché) give emotional heft to a delicate web of social relationships. Previous films of French director Cedric Klapisch have made a microcosm of a neighborhood (When the Cat’s Away) and a shared apartment (L’auberge espagnole). Paris encompasses the City of Lights in an Altman-esque merry-go-round: When a dancer (Duris) discovers he has heart trouble, he’s reluctant to tell his sister (Binoche), a social worker raising three children by herself. Meanwhile, a middle-aged historian (Fabrice Luchini, Claire’s Knee) finds sudden fortune as the host of a television series, but can’t keep himself from sending Baudelaire poems via text message to a lovely young student (Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds). In between these two primary storylines, a multitude of other characters overlap in significant and trivial ways. Minor disappointments and casual pleasures brush against life-changing troubles and, every once in a while, the tantalizing possibility of a lasting happiness. Klapisch has broad ideas about the importance of community, spontaneity, and human contact, but the movie’s success lies in the grit and vividness of simple social interactions--awkward, combative, misunderstood, and joyous. There are missteps (a flimsy dream sequence jars against the movie’s deft naturalism), but they’re small and forgivable. Paris is a lovely and moving film, full of offhand gestures and accidents that will linger in your memory, charged with unexpected resonance. --Bret Fetzer
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It's no Breathless or Amelie, but it's good July 29, 2010
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
3.8 stars
Paris is my favorite city, with SF and Berlin close seconds. After about 20 visits over the last 40 years and some brief spells living there, I love any chance to be in Paree, even if just in spirit, so Parisian films delight and intoxicate with memories and the promise of another visite. Paris the movie offers some nice moments and some good acting, and is a fine film...but as a Parisian classic I can't really rank it up there with Amelie, Breathless, Le Dernier Metro, Day Of The Jackal, Diva, Les Ripoux, and a few others.
The highlights include the acting of Binoche and Lucchini, a good script, and of course some fine shots of the town. But despite the realer than usual feel, something didn't quite click for me here. Many might call this episodic flick Altmanesque, and I'd agree, for better and for worse. It's got his multiple storylines, one or three characters too many to get much involved with any of them, and an ending that's a little too forced and tidy, even though nothing is resolved. Which is fine, but I wasn't left with the same feeling of wonder I get when watching any of the other mentioned films, or the same longing to jump on a plane that instant and walk the town for 12 hours day after day.
I speak decent French and the subtitles are actually more accurate than usual, though the language is actually nowhere near as idiomatic as one might expect...which is one of my qualms here. It sets out to be a panoply of Paris viewpoints, but there's less local feel than you might expect for each arrondissement and the very different vibes each place has, except perhaps the Pavillon des Viandes...they got that right!
The stories are interesting but never really gripped me, and there was more angst and less amused Gallic shrug than I've encountered in the town and France in general. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the happy slyness I love in so many Parisians one meets during non-tourist season (go in late fall, winter, and early spring!) seems rather absent. But perhaps that's a function of the town being, as is said here, for rich people now. It can't be getting any cheaper to live there, no doubt. It's the working class Paris I was looking forward to seeing more of here, but it all felt like a movie in the end.
A good movie, well shot and acted, no doubt...but without the magic of so many other Paris films that seem more suffused with the City of Light's glow, both inside and out.
Paris Panorama June 27, 2010
Blue (Washington, DC United States)
Interesting collection of stories--mostly romantic relationships--against the spectacular backdrop of the neighborhoods of Paris. Central to the film is the saga of a young dancer (Roman Duris) who is afflicted with literally a failing heart and awaits a heart transplant. He is cared for by his single-mother sister (Juliette Binoche) who moves into his small, but spectacularly located apartment with her three children. The sister has her own problems of the heart as do the film's secondary characters who orbit around the dancer's story.
The film is a series of vignettes, connected mostly by the scenic wonders of the city. There is a distinct French point-of-view here, sometimes not fully clear to an Anglo-Saxon perspective (at least not this one) and not fully explained through the film's subtitles. Overall though, a beautiful and touching piece of cinema. Recommended.
 Paris Altman Style April 30, 2010
Zarathustra (Sacramento, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm in the middle of a project to view as many Robert Altman films as possible. He made 35 films in a long career and they feature ensemble casts whose stories intertwine. Cedric Klapisch, a talented French writer and director, follows the Altman model.
My first Klapisch film was Chacun Cherche Son Chat (When the Cat's Away)from 1996 which features a declining Paris neighborhood with well written characters. Paris is like an expanded version of that film.
My next two Klapisch films, L'Auberge Espagnole from 2002 filmed in Barcelona and Russian Dolls, the 2005 sequel, featuring St. Petersburg, follow an interesting group of international students.
I believe Paris is his best film so far. It shows many
faces of the City of Light and the ensemble cast is led by Romain Duris and Juliette Binoche. We have not seen such a captivating view of Paris since the Montmartre of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie (2001).
 Just Okay... April 1, 2010
T. Nuzzo (San Diego, CA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie is very French; little resolution tempered with a healthy dose of depression. I purchased it because I love Paris. You do get to see quite a bit of the lovely city-so it has that going for it. Otherwise, this movie is only for die-hard French cinema fans (I enjoyed it, my husband hated it; I speak French, he doesn't).
 A tour of paris in the company of several really nasty people. March 28, 2010
G. Paquet (Montecito, Ca)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
I found the characters portrayed in this movies to be so repulsive that I left the movie half-way through the performance.
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