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Paris (2008)

February. 20,2008
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6.8
| Drama

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.

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AniInterview
2008/02/20

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Fatma Suarez
2008/02/21

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Freeman
2008/02/22

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Marva
2008/02/23

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Desertman84
2008/02/24

Paris is a film about a diverse group of people that are living in the big capital city of France called Paris.They include: Pierre, a cabaret dancer who learns from a cardiologist that he has a severe heart condition; Élise, Pierre's sister and a social worker, divorced with three children;Roland, an academic at the Sorbonne and expert on the history of Paris;Jean,a vegetable market vendor and separated from Caroline,a fellow market worker;Philippe,Roland's brother and a successful architect whose wife Mélanie is pregnant with their first child;Khadija, a student of North African background, who is looking for work;Laetitia, a Sorbonne student who begins a relationship with a fellow student; and Benoit,who tries to cross the borders of France from Cameroon without the necessary legal immigration paperworks. The cast includes Juliette Binoche,Romain Duris,Fabrice Luchini,François Cluzet,Mélanie Laurent,Maurice Bénichou and Karin Viard.French director Cédric Klapisch keeps the movie moving but making the viewer excited on what is going to happen in the next scene.While the story is definitely far from being realistic as the number of characters in this movie and the events that happen in their life get to intersect in more ways than one in one big and busy city where millions of people live.But nevertheless,one would definitely still find the movie both enjoyable and entertaining.This ensemble drama has great performances from the cast and each character are involved in an intriguing story of their own.

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Armand
2008/02/25

Beautiful, sad, strange and delicate.Stories of a city, skin of some lives, faces, words, lost and sense of existence. A memento mori and, in same time, a tapestry. A impressive definition of a great place with people as letters. A song, old and fresh, about small things. And the search of them. Game of expectations and rest, shadow of self-definition, Juliette Binoche in the suit of usual character, balance factor, Romain Duris as victim in french peel, Fabrice Luchini as sisyphic hero of heavy personal history. Pieces of expectations and the life as spun yarn.A film about the answers with lost questions. Image of every city, picture of ordinary walk, shell of waiting.

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stensson
2008/02/26

Many parallel stories here; many of them taking place under the eyes of this young dancer with a heart disease, who watches them from his balcony.He's jealous of these lives and communicates with them mostly through his sister, who after all perhaps is the only real character he knows. She's living, while others perform a kind of theater, from the racist lady in the baker's shop to the professor who tries to have a ridiculous affair with one of his students.The script functions well sometimes and less well other times. A movie to watch or just let go.

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Siamois
2008/02/27

The movie is mostly made of vignettes following several characters, loosely interconnected in the city of Paris. Sounds familiar. To be honest, I've grown tired of the many dramas borrowing that formula. It's become an epidemic, especially since Magnolia. And so, I did not expect to enjoy Paris all that much. But I loved it and it moved me by its stripped down, sincere approach.Director and writer Cédric Klapisch, unlike several of his contemporaries, did not feel the need to employ convoluted means to link these characters, or end the movie on some sort of unifying, highly artificial bang. Klapish wisely elects to concentrate on building strong characters. He succeeds, so much so that it becomes easy for him to create simple, believable story lines for them. The real link between them? They are fallible, restless, tentative, longing... in other words, they are human.There's a large cast here and Klepish mostly concentrates on a few of them. Many of the smaller parts are actually as intriguing as the bigger roles and I caught myself wondering what would happen to those characters. But Klapisch stays the course and ends the movie much like it began. A lot is left unresolved, much like life. No Hollywood ending here but I could certainly have followed those characters for another hour if need be.A beautiful, stripped down story but enough subtext and genuine quality to make for a great and lasting movie experience.

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