Paris

“Paris” is director/writer Cedric Klapisch’ ode to the city of Paris as he films the lives of various sets of siblings and lovers in a tangled series of tales involving all of them, directly or indirectly. Starring Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris and a host of other well-known French actors, the film stands out only because of Mademoiselle Binoche. Bringing depth, beauty and meaning to every word she utters and every movement she makes, this is clearly her film. Unfortunately one such star alone cannot carry this 125 minute movie and so the audience follows the lives of the others in the movie without really getting to know any of them well. This is the great defect in the film for it is wide but not deep and superficial instead of searching as the filmgoer wonders a lot about each character but learns very little about any one of them. I give this film 2 and ½ stars.