In Theaters:
Paris
Dancers, immigrants, attitudinal intellectuals, models, harassed bureaucrats, brawling market workers, and snippy shopkeepers make up the patchwork of characters whose lives gloriously sprawl through the neatly orchestrated tragicomedy of Cédric Klapisch’s Paris. Instead of contemplating the whorls of Gauloise smoke hanging between their eyes and a rain-dappled window in one of the fancier arrondissements, as proper cinematic Parisians should, writer/director Klapisch’s characters rail, pout, and flail at the strictures of their lives. Some are in love, some are dying, and others are just floundering in frustration, but almost every one of them is straining for something better. What with all the fatal accidents, deadly diseases, bar fights, and virtual stalking going on, this could almost be an American film…
Paris opens in limited release tomorrow. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.
Chris Barsanti 