Movie Review

Paris (2009)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Oct 01, 2009

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Limited Release: Sep 18, 2009; Rated: R; Length: 128 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language; With: Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris

$JE T\'AIME Juliette Binoche walks the streets of Paris | Paris, Juliette Binoche$

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JE T'AIME Juliette Binoche walks the streets of Paris

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The French director Cédric Klapisch is a glib wizard at weaving folks together, but there are too many secondhand characters roving through Paris, his latest ensemble piece. There's the young man (Romain Duris) who may have a fatal heart condition; his caretaker sister (Juliette Binoche); the jaded professor (Fabrice Luchini) who stalks a student (and embarrasses us with his ''rock dancing''); his polar-opposite brother (François Cluzet) — all diagrammed to evoke the old/young, archaic/modern paradox of life in Paris. But there's no denying that it all plays. B–

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Originally posted Sep 29, 2009 Published in issue #1069-1070 Oct 09, 2009 Order article reprints

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