Paris 36 Critic Reviews

Paris 36 has a beguilingly authentic sound and offers a blend of impassioned sentiment and harsh, even brutal gritRead the full review

It's pleasant and amusing. If I had seen it before I was born, I would have loved it.Read the full review

A handsomely made French musical that never really soars.Read the full review

The overstuffed film lumbers across clichés of the heart and of history until it reaches a big, tune-filled climax that isn't worth the wait.Read the full review

A little like spending the holidays with strangers. The spirits are high, the relationships are warm, the personal stories have a shared history, and even though you're on the outside of things, you appreciate the people in a remote and perhaps admiring sort of way. Still, when it's time to leave, you're not sorry.Read the full review

Schematically scripted tale revels in its multiple story arcs, but shows signs of battle fatigue in the later reels.Read the full review

The movie is almost rescued by the wonderful 1930's style songs (written by Reinhardt Wanger and Frank Thomas) that populate its final act.Read the full review

In short, the financial crisis and social upheaval of 1930s France never looked so appealing.Read the full review

So shameless in its pandering, sentimental vision of Frenchness as to constitute something of a national embarrassment.Read the full review