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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierHas a mature tapestry of characters, a welcome sense of humor and, most crucially, a lovely Juliette Binoche.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThere 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.
- If the idea of interconnectedness feels secondhand, what's fresh and affecting is the way Binoche's and Duris' characters navigate life and death.
- 70Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAs 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.
- 67The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinParis flits from story to story and character to character without doing justice to any of them.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterParis is a bittersweet film containing rare moments of comedy.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceAt a 124-minute runtime, though, the writer-director has stretched a wide canvas, and only sporadically found anything worth filling it with.
- 50New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThe 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.
- 50Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesSoggy stuff from French director Cedric Klapisch (When the Cat’s Away), set in the title city and collecting the routine travails of various urbanites.
- 40Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearThis could have been a true urban mosaic. Instead, we simply get a vision of Paris as the city of lite.