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Overview
Dans Paris is a French film comedy-drama first released in 2006,
directed by Christophe Honoré.
The film stars Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Joana Preiss and Guy Marchand.
It has also been released under the title: Inside Paris.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Paul turns his back on his life
in the country and returns to his family home in Paris. Depressed
and withdrawn, Paul mopes about whilst his brother Jonathan, who
appears to be his complete opposite, swings from one romantic
entanglement to another without any sense of regret...
Film Review
For his third full-length film, director Christophe Honoré
brings together the two talented lead actors of his first two films,
Romain Duris and Louis Garrel, for a darkly introspective study in
existential angst and free love. Dans Paris is a strangely beguiling
film which captures a more melancholic, grubbier side of the famous
City of Lights than most cinema-goers are used to seeing. Where the film disappoints is in its seemingly endless references to the films of the French New Wave, which become tedious and distracting after a while. Dans Paris is a film that deserves to stand on its own merits but it feels like a greatest hits compilation of the works of Truffaut, Godard, Rivette... et les autres. Needless to say, the performances are of the highest calibre (Garrel is particularly good in this film) and these retain the realism and humanity that Honoré seems so eager to wreck with some tasteless humour and his over-enthusiastic homage to his illustrious predecessors. Not Honoré’s best work, and certainly far less subversive than his previous films, but an engaging and hauntingly lyrical piece all the same. © filmsdefrance.com 2009 Write a review for this film... User Comments
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