Dans Paris is not merely allusive to the French New Wave, it's practically Tarantino-esque.

| Nov 14, 2013

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It shouldn't work, but it does, as a vibrant, modern re-imagining of the New Wave aesthetic, at once mopey, sweet, playful and madly in love with Americana and cinema itself.

| Jun 9, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6 | Jan 18, 2008

will induce a shortage in precious vacation days, stirring up visions of oneself mimicking the carefree Jonathan, gallivanting about Paris without a care in the world

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2007

If watching mopey naked French people is your idea of a date night, this is your movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2007

Almost overwhelmingly dark and downbeat, which nearly makes the whole thing unwatchable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2007

A lighthearted riff on heavy themes, Dans Paris is a knowing throwback to the playful, profound works of the early French New Wave.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Dans Paris is an odd, off-kilter drama that lurches along for a while -- the disconnected scenes seem almost to be bumping into each other at random -- until, in the final scenes, it all comes together.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2007

If an admirable attempt at the iconoclastic, Dans Paris is too much film school for an afternoon. Lacks even the modest structure and resolution that most audiences will demand.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2007

Moody, mannered and supremely irritating.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 7, 2007

The personal disconnections and interpersonal bonds the film explores are timeless.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Dans Paris has a lot of whining about women, interrupted with impulsive trysts and bouts of dancing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 31, 2007

The situation is less interesting than Honoré's eclectic style...

| Aug 31, 2007

Dans Paris is limned with human stumbling, snatches of temporary joy laced with existential disquiet and the desperation of souls at sea in a sterile universe but not to be denied grasps of pleasure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2007

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 18, 2007

By the time it's over, you feel as if you've taken a graduate course at UCLA film school.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2007

Structurally, it is mostly windup with very little delivery.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2007

There's something breathtaking about this melodically melancholic homage to the French New Wave and the City of Lights herself ... as modernly poignant as it is retro-seductive.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2007

Christmas with the cracked.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2007