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Dans Paris
IFC Films


8.5

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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Joana Preiss, Guy Marchand, Marie-France Pisier, and Alice Butaud

A depressed and suicidal man returns home after the break-up of his marriage to live with his divorced father and amorous younger brother. While his care-free brother 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. Left in the house to talk to his brother's girlfriends and brood, he finally realizes that while things haven't gone according to plan, his family is always there for him and there is always something to live for. (IFC Center)

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Christophe Honor�
DIRECTED BY:	Christophe Honor�
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: March 11, 2008 Theatrical: August 8, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	93 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	France
LANGUAGE(S):	French

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Premiere Aaron Hillis

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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Picks up where the early Fran�ois 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.

Chicago Tribune Sid Smith

Dans Paris is a cohesive, albeit sometimes creepy, fabric of disparate modes and colors.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

There's a vivid comedy to this family's emotional state of siege, an easy confidence to Honor�'s camerawork, and plenty of beautiful bodies.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Dans Paris makes the city seem like the ideal place to be clinically depressed.

Variety Jay Weissberg

Inside Paris is that rarity, a genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful, small film, alternately sober and effervescent, steering clear of either heavy-going philosophizing or dreaded whimsy.

Village Voice Julia Wallace

Christophe Honor�'s Dans Paris is both a floppy, joyful tribute to the French New Wave and an inspired retelling of "Franny and Zooey."

TV Guide Ken Fox

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.

Washington Post 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.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Make a movie about depressed people, and what do you get? A depressing movie.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Christophe Honor� collaborated with Anne-Sophie Birot on the script of her excellent "Girls Can't Swim," but left to his own devices, he seems like a relatively dull cousin of Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life . . . or How I Got Into an Argument).

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Clich�, or experiment with clich�? Really, it?s not worth sticking around to find out, since the action mostly involves the monotonous Romain Duris standing around in his underpants or sitting on the toilet banging on about why love has fled.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Moody, mannered and supremely irritating, Christophe Honor�'s Dans Paris plays like a pastiche of French cinema clich�s through the ages.

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