Audiard manages to take the disconnected urban lifestyle of young adults and present a more faithful rendition than we’ve come to expect. He reminds us that sex is not just sexy but also an effective cinematic tool.

| Jul 21, 2023

A vision of the City of Light that feels different enough to warrant our attention. These interwoven stories carry wider resonance that extends well beyond a Francophone audience, too, with their stark sexual attitudes and poignant romantic heartbeat.

| Jan 20, 2023

Audiard’s not been this sharp and electric in a decade at least, understandably energized by his incredible cast and by the intensity of the sexual dynamics explored within.

| Dec 23, 2022

It interrogates, with a certain episodic coarseness, the dilemmas of love in the digital age of gender identity and intercultural diversity, but in general its overall vision loses its dramatic potential. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 17, 2022

Paints a generational portrait that analyzes socially and anthropologically how intimate relationships work in modern society. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 2, 2022

Audiard splits the screen to depict those long-distance conversations loaded with chemistry. So far and so close. And vice versa. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2022

The result is sloppy but funny, and includes a charming debut performance by Lucie Zhang as a mixed-up call-center employee.

| Aug 3, 2022

Audiard captures the fluid nature of relationships for a younger generation navigating both on and offline opportunities and, because this is French, it also features plenty of gracefully worked sexual encounters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 20, 2022

Stirs a trainwreck-type of intrigue to know how the twisty tale will unravel. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 8, 2022

As filled with millennial insight as it is filled with nudity, "Paris 13th District" is a lighter affair from the dependable Jacques Audiard.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 31, 2022

It’s energising to see another portrait of contemporary life where people look forward, rather than back.

| May 21, 2022

A genuine symphony of millennial single life, up and downs included. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2022

Lacks dramatic and visual strength, perhaps due to its extreme external focus. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 12, 2022

It's about vases, essences, things that break, and above all else, love. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2022

The erotic-infused romantic drama Paris, 13th District uses a familiar formula of showing casual sex turning into love. The movie's compelling performances and a few plot twists enliven a story that wants to be edgy yet sentimental.

| May 11, 2022

Drawing on several short stories by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, the film pins down many of the odder elements of contemporary dating.

| May 5, 2022

Doesn't altogether feel like a finished movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2022

...a love triangle more banal than stirring, and a sex-life mosaic more melodramatic than the tales Tomine told across a series of panels.

| Apr 28, 2022

Even if this sex-forward comedy-drama is slightly miscast, directorially, and always slightly favoring the male gaze, the actors are excellent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2022

The moments of nastiness combined with times of apathy bring together the peaks of this little drama, cratering when the writers assemble unearned redemption.

| Apr 24, 2022