DANS PARIS
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DIRECTOR
Christophe Honoré
SCREENPLAY
Christophe Honoré
CAST
Paul: Romain Duris
Jonathan: Louis Garrel
Anna: Joana Preiss
Mirko, le père: Guy Marchand
La mère: Marie-France Pisier
Alice: Alice Butaud
Running time: 93’
Production: France, 2006
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
GENRE
Drama
DISTRIBUTOR
New Yorker Films
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?“ ‘Inside Paris’ is that rarity, a genuinely honest, unpretentious and delightful, small film, alternately sober and effervescent, steering clear of either heavy-going philosophizing or dreaded whimsy. Besides confirming Louis Garrel's ineffable charm, the pic's understanding of depression, embodied by the chameleon-like Romain Duris, is as accurate as it is unadorned by artifice.”
Jay Weissberg, Variety |
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?A 30 year old man, Paul, lives with his wife in the countryside and has an unexplainable breakdown. He decides to return to his father's flat in Paris, takes over his younger brother's room and refuses to get out of bed. The family has to deal with this situation and every member reacts in a different way. The father, who is excessively worried about his son, would go to any extent to satisfy him. In the collective disinterest, he cooks, cleans, and prepares Christmas, trying to maintain a childhood bubble around his grown up children. At the same time, Paul's brother is outside, walking in the city and going from one girl to another. Between each date, he calls Paul on the phone and describes to him the city and the mild extravagance of his womanising. Women are in fact the missing pieces from this family. Behind the deep depression of Paul, the silence of his father and the laughs of his brother, there is the burden of the absent mother, and the sister's death. Inspired by the Nouvelle Vague, the film explores the intimacy of a family. It gives an extremely delicate approach of three idle and sensitive men linked by solidarity, humour and reserve.
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