In Paris
IFC Films | Release Date: August 8, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
PremiereAaron Hillis
Where Dans Paris truly pops, besides its spot-on leads or the slick curation of its fashions and locales, are in its mood-mixing musical moments. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Picks up where the early François Truffaut and his comrades-in-cinema left off -- with a playful, liberatory style, and a song (actually, a few) in his heart and on his actors’ lips. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Dans Paris is a cohesive, albeit sometimes creepy, fabric of disparate modes and colors. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal. Read full review
70
VarietyJay Weissberg
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. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJulia Wallace
Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris is both a floppy, joyful tribute to the French New Wave and an inspired retelling of "Franny and Zooey." Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
There's a vivid comedy to this family's emotional state of siege, an easy confidence to Honoré's camerawork, and plenty of beautiful bodies. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Dans Paris makes the city seem like the ideal place to be clinically depressed. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
This is a film for hardcore film fans and Francophiles. Everyone else may find little to sustain them beyond the pastiche and shots of Paris. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Dans Paris will delight aficionados familiar with its myriad references, and there's no denying the appeal of Duris and Garrel. But once the source of the boys' primal wound is revealed, the whole enterprise comes to feel as mechanical as the Bon Marche window display that serves as one of the film's plot points. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Make a movie about depressed people, and what do you get? A depressing movie. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Christophe Honoré collaborated with Anne-Sophie Birot on the script of her excellent "Girls Can't Swim," but left to his own devices, he seems like a relatively dull cousin of Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life . . . or How I Got Into an Argument). Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Cliché, or experiment with cliché? Really, it’s not worth sticking around to find out, since the action mostly involves the monotonous Romain Duris standing around in his underpants or sitting on the toilet banging on about why love has fled. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Moody, mannered and supremely irritating, Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris plays like a pastiche of French cinema clichés through the ages. Read full review
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