Synopsis
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
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Cast
- Juliette BinocheElise
- Romain DurisPierre
- Fabrice LuchiniRoland Verneuil
- Albert DupontelJean
- François CluzetPhilippe Verneuil
- Karin ViardLa Boulangère
- Gilles LelloucheFranky
- Mélanie LaurentLaetitia
- Zinedine SoualemMourad
- Julie FerrierCaroline
Recommendations
- 80
New York Daily News
Has a mature tapestry of characters, a welcome sense of humor and, most crucially, a lovely Juliette Binoche. - 70
The New York Times
There 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. - 70
Los Angeles Times
If the idea of interconnectedness feels secondhand, what's fresh and affecting is the way Binoche's and Duris' characters navigate life and death. - 70
Wall Street Journal
As 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. - 67
The A.V. Club
Paris flits from story to story and character to character without doing justice to any of them. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Paris is a bittersweet film containing rare moments of comedy. - 50
Village Voice
At a 124-minute runtime, though, the writer-director has stretched a wide canvas, and only sporadically found anything worth filling it with. - 50
New York Post
The 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.
