Some movies declare their sources openly. Director Cedric Klapisch's seriocomedy
Paris falls squarely into this category, aspiring to establish itself as the definitive French version of Robert Altman's
Short Cuts. The similarities are innumerable: multiple crisscrossed substories in an urban landscape that each receive a scant amount of screen time; quirky existential reflections on fate, chance, and the degree to which a broad patchwork of intersecting lives can yield a ripple effect and impact individuals in startling ways; a central despair and sadness about the pitfalls of the human race, offset by flashes of dark humor.
The film is comp...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
128 mins