Inside Paris (Dans Paris) Critic Reviews

Besides the restless style, Dans Paris is remarkable for being more about familial bonds than French cinema tends to be.Read the full review

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 the full review

Dans Paris provides a brooding, poetic echo - an after-dinner mint to a lasting meal.Read the full review

Dans Paris makes the city seem like the ideal place to be clinically depressed.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review