Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris is both a floppy, joyful tribute to the French New Wave and an inspired retelling of "Franny and Zooey."
In Paris(Dans Paris)
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France, Portugal · 2006
1h 32m
Director Christophe Honoré
Starring Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Joana Preiss, Guy Marchand
Genre Comedy, Drama
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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 father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy.
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Where Dans Paris truly pops, besides its spot-on leads or the slick curation of its fashions and locales, are in its mood-mixing musical moments.
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.
Washington Post by Ann Hornaday
Dans Paris will delight aficionados familiar with its myriad references, and there's no denying the appeal of Duris and Garrel. But once the source of the boys' primal wound is revealed, the whole enterprise comes to feel as mechanical as the Bon Marche window display that serves as one of the film's plot points.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Dans Paris makes the city seem like the ideal place to be clinically depressed.
This is a film for hardcore film fans and Francophiles. Everyone else may find little to sustain them beyond the pastiche and shots of Paris.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Picks up where the early François Truffaut and his comrades-in-cinema left off -- with a playful, liberatory style, and a song (actually, a few) in his heart and on his actors’ lips.
Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be.
Make a movie about depressed people, and what do you get? A depressing movie.
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