Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

SnoopyStyle It's a web of stories connected to Paris. Pierre is a dancer with a heart problem. He needs a heart transplant. He spends his days watching people from his apartment. His sister Elise (Juliette Binoche) is a social worker and single mother to three kids. They move into his apartment to take care of him. One of her clients is Mourad whose brother Benoit is traveling across Africa to try to enter France illegally. Roland Verneuil is a academic who becomes attracted to his student Laetitia (Mélanie Laurent). His architect brother Philippe Verneuil has pregnant wife Mélanie and nightmares about his project. Khadija with North African roots finds work in a bakery despite her racist boss. These and others form the story web. It's a lot of characters connected in various ways. Some of them are compelling. Some are less compelling. Some are even forgettable. It's a bit overloaded which makes the stories feel scattered. I would prefer fewer characters and more story in each one. This does have a sense of Paris as a place of love and connections and internationalism.

Desertman84 Paris is a film about a diverse group of people that are living in the big capital city of France called Paris.They include: Pierre, a cabaret dancer who learns from a cardiologist that he has a severe heart condition; Élise, Pierre's sister and a social worker, divorced with three children;Roland, an academic at the Sorbonne and expert on the history of Paris;Jean,a vegetable market vendor and separated from Caroline,a fellow market worker;Philippe,Roland's brother and a successful architect whose wife Mélanie is pregnant with their first child;Khadija, a student of North African background, who is looking for work;Laetitia, a Sorbonne student who begins a relationship with a fellow student; and Benoit,who tries to cross the borders of France from Cameroon without the necessary legal immigration paperworks. The cast includes Juliette Binoche,Romain Duris,Fabrice Luchini,François Cluzet,Mélanie Laurent,Maurice Bénichou and Karin Viard.French director Cédric Klapisch keeps the movie moving but making the viewer excited on what is going to happen in the next scene.While the story is definitely far from being realistic as the number of characters in this movie and the events that happen in their life get to intersect in more ways than one in one big and busy city where millions of people live.But nevertheless,one would definitely still find the movie both enjoyable and entertaining.This ensemble drama has great performances from the cast and each character are involved in an intriguing story of their own.

aFrenchparadox I din't love it, but I liked it for sure. Typical French movie showing no exceptional events, just ordinary lives, a lot of ordinary lives to which you finally get attached. Three characters in different scenes, speaking of the fact that they hadn't had sex or had been single for a long time: "During Middle-Age. I will need to check my dick with carbon 14 to be sure"; "I think even my cat would like to dump me"; "My legs aren't waxed..." "...Don't worry, at this stage I can't care". This summarizes all the topic: ordinary lives are lonely, all lives are lonely. At last a so realistic ignorant racist baker wonderfully played by Karine Viard: the France I hate, but who exists whatever I think and want; just wanted to slap her.

chuck-526 I just saw this movie "Paris" at my local cinema, and I loved it.You may love it too ...providing you meet a couple caveats. First, you have to like subtitles (or understand quick Parisian French slang pretty well). And second, the medium-fast pacing has to be to your liking. The film is neither impossibly slow nor ridiculously fast - it's just a little on the fast side of middle of the road by today's standards, which may be okay with you. But if you don't like the pacing, the whole film will probably turn you off completely.Several different story lines with mostly different characters proceed simultaneously. They're inter-cut, so we see a scene from one then a scene from another. Sometimes the mixing even switches back and forth before the stories move to the "next" scene, so we see the continuation of the same scene a few minutes later. Every so often two of the story lines will come together briefly, usually bouncing their separate ways again quickly. There's no cutesy effort to bring all the story lines together at once, or to have just one conclusion simultaneously wrap up all the story lines.None of the story lines is deep enough to carry a whole movie (although with different development a couple of them might be); but all together there's more than enough interest to keep the film from being just a travelogue. Each story is a "slice of life," with the story line being the skeleton that adds enough structure to let the characters and events rise above being just amorphous blobs.All the sights are here, but as believable backgrounds to the stories, not as "scenery." If it's in a guide book, there's probably a shot of it somewhere in this movie. The scene constantly changes; without even realizing it, we eventually see all the sights. At one point if you watch carefully and quickly the camera even recreates the view captured on an earlier postcard. Some not-so-conventional sights are included too; who knew that the Paris meat market interior could look like an abstract painting? Academic and theoretical approaches to any "big city" are presented too. But they're presented as just one more way of viewing things; they're not given any sort of precedence or prominence.There's quite a bit of self-reference (although not so much that the device hijacks the movie). The boundaries between "this movie" and "the movie within the movie" are often fuzzed. Several scenes include movie cameras; one early scene even states explicitly that the cameras are shooting the very movie we're watching. The scene with a psychologist can be seen both as straight and as bizarrely bent. It plays on so many levels simultaneously that you may be laughing out loud and squirming uncomfortably in your seat at the same time.Yesterday I watched three old episodes of the TV show Mad Men on DVD, and I'm surprised how stylistically similar this film and that TV show are. Multiple story lines and their characters mix repeatedly and almost randomly. Both forward and backward visual references tie scenes together. Just a few words or gestures often convey an ocean of emotions; if your "emotional IQ" is "challenged," you'd better pay close attention. Production values are very high. The film often looks "casual" to the viewer, but shooting some of those scenes must have been a filmmaker's nightmare. Often events and scenes will build toward a particular "conventional" or "obvious" conclusion, but always something different (often nothing at all) happens. It's as though the film makes a point of yanking our chain repeatedly. And once in a while a story element is clearly stated, but then dropped without further reference.A cynic could see this film as someone showing off that they can include every single trope they learned about in film school. Or better, it can be seen as a thoroughly enjoyable paean to the "City of Light." (One quibble: all the subtitles are presented in the exact same flat beige. When they're against a light colored background -as presented by many of the scenes- they're rather hard to read.)