The Paris Opera(L'Opéra)

Washington Post by

The Paris Opera is a good representation of the struggle behind the spectacle. In movies, though, it’s sometimes best to even out those proportions — a little less absolute truth, and a little more bull.

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

The Paris Opera feels at once sprawling and insufficiently patient.

San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson

For a documentary about one of the most prestigious opera institutions in the world, The Paris Opera has, maddeningly, very little opera.

Village Voice by Nick Schager

Unfortunately, the film has nothing much to say other than that the enterprise is inherently complicated — which isn’t point enough for 111 minutes of screen time.

Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

Covering an eventful artistic season, Jean-Stéphane Bron’s The Paris Opera is a well-observed vérité portrait of a major cultural institution.