“That’s Paris,” says Pierre, a dancer with a bummer heart. “Nobody’s happy!”
Cedric Klapisch’s valentine to the City of Lights is an infrequently beguiling, mostly dull, social and cultural lattice of characters, among them a middle-aged history professor (Fabrice Luchini) who sex-texts his pretty student (Melanie Laurent), a dancer (Romain Duris) awaiting a heart transplant, his single mother sister (Juliette Binoche) who moves in to take care of him, and other characters flitting around them in subplots of varying amounts of interest. In French with subtitles. Rated: R (language and sexual references). 130 minutes. (Read more…)
Now playing at the Century Centre in Chicago.