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When it comes to being a fool for love, there are no city limits.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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Paris
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Cédric Klapisch Director
- Juliette Binoche as Elise
- Romain Duris as Pierre
- Fabrice Luchini as Roland Verneuil
- Albert Dupontel as Jean
- François Cluzet as Philippe Verneuil
- Karin Viard as La Boulangère
- Gilles Lellouche as Franky
- Mélanie Laurent as Laetitia
- Zinedine Soualem as Mourad
- Julie Ferrier as Caroline
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
66%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Perhaps it's time for a moratorium on movies where the trajectories of various people intersect, often portentously, across the tableau of a big city.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
The French director Cedric Klapisch is a glib wizard at weaving folks together, but there are too many secondhand characters roving through Paris, his latest ensemble piece.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Paris keeps us involved not because of momentous plot developments but because the production incites our curiosity to see what will happen next.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
Writer-director Klapisch's glossy love letter to Paris, and its yearning, beautifully lighted inhabitants, may not be much, and you may not even believe in its emotional and (discreet) carnal complications moment to moment. But the cast is fabulous.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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