Dans Paris

Paul (Romain Duris, Moliere, The Beat that my Heart Skipped), depressed from a recent break-up, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother Jonathan (Louis Garrel, The Dreamers). While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy. When Paul is then left in the house to brood and talk to one of his brother's girlfriends, he begins to realize that while things haven't gone according to plan, one can always find something to live for.

“With DANS PARIS, Christophe Honoré picks up where the early François Truffaut and his comrades-in-cinema left off -- with a playful, liberatory style, and a song in his heart.” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times)

“INSIDE PARIS [DANS 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.” (Jay Weissberg, Variety)

“The film is a domestic love story of the first order, but it is also a semi-abstract series of quiet, intense moments -- a slap, a phone call, a hug in the bathtub -- that tiptoe up to a climax both spectacularly and subtly emotional.” (Julia Wallace, Village Voice)

“DANS PARIS feels fresh and quirky enough to have been made 30 years ago.” (Jan Stuart, Newsday)

“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.” (Andrew O’Herir, Salon.com)