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100Klapisch's masterstroke was to place at the center of a movie a man, forced by circumstances, to stop and simply observe.
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90Paris is a funny, sad, romantic and deeply felt love letter to a great city. If you can't book a trip now, it's the next best thing.
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88Every character has life and depth. It's unusual for an episodic film to involve us so well in individual lives; as the narrative circles through their stories, we're genuinely curious about what will happen next.
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88This is a kaleidoscopic valentine to a great city from a director who knows and loves his subject.
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80Has a mature tapestry of characters, a welcome sense of humor and, most crucially, a lovely Juliette Binoche.
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75The actors, remarkable and seasoned, take care of their end of things, stylishly and (when and where it can be arranged) truthfully.
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75Not much happens during the course of the movie but, as with all good dramas, the protagonists are richly drawn and the events of their lives become of interest.
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75It pulls together diverse residents of the city, from produce vendors to academics, and trains a loving eye on their unique environments and the urban landscapes they all share.
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75The new film Paris by writer-director Cédric Klapisch was originally supposed to carry the subtitle "An Ephemeral Portrait of an Eternal City." That kind of sums it up.
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If the idea of interconnectedness feels secondhand, what's fresh and affecting is the way Binoche's and Duris' characters navigate life and death.
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70There are enough intersecting characters from different classes and backgrounds in Paris to evoke the city as a complex, healthy organism, whose parts are all connected. If it is too lighthearted to show the actual political and economic machinery behind it, its celebration of how well that machinery works produces a pleasant afterglow.
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70As a whole, though, Paris pulses with a contemporary version of the energy that animated Balzac's novels, or Colette's accounts of the life she observed from the window of her apartment in the Palais Royal.
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67To a one, they're terrific. But in this overpacked ensemble cast, it's Binoche you want to see more of.
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67There are too many secondhand characters roving through Paris.
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67Paris flits from story to story and character to character without doing justice to any of them.
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63The best armchair holiday going - the cast is lovely to behold and the plot dips in and out of the arrondissements with panache. You almost don't mind that none of it adds up to terribly much.
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Paris is a bittersweet film containing rare moments of comedy.
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50The tales mostly drift along and wrap up unresolved. If this is an accurate slice of Paris life, I'll take the relative excitement of Topeka.
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At a 124-minute runtime, though, the writer-director has stretched a wide canvas, and only sporadically found anything worth filling it with.
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50Soggy stuff from French director Cedric Klapisch (When the Cat's Away), set in the title city and collecting the routine travails of various urbanites.
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40This could have been a true urban mosaic. Instead, we simply get a vision of Paris as the city of lite.
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