Tres jóvenes solteros tratando de llenar un vacío que no existe. Caótica, triste y chistosa como lo es la vida misma; este es el tipo de películas que no se siente como una película, simplemente somos espectadores de la vida de alguien más. Como mexicano, Emilia Pérez tiene muy pocas esperanzas de que la pueda disfrutar, pero esta películas es la única prueba de que le encuentre algo de cariño gracias a la dirección de Jacques Audiard y que pueda transmitir su estilo de dirección y me atrape por lo menos en ese aspecto, en un mes veremos si lo consigue.

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Paris, 13th District is a bold and sensual film. A film that explores modern love with insight, humour and pathos. Acclaimed director Jacques Audiard makes films with power and emotional resonance and even though this film could be considered having a lighter touch it still stikes a blow in many ways. Shot in stark Black and White this fine film is the story of three Paris millenials and how their lives become intertwined. There is Emilie, a bored call centre operator, who places an ad for a flatmate. Camille, a teacher, answers her and they soon form a relationship. Nora attends the same university that Camille teaches at. She is an older student and is trying to reshape her life. She eventually meets Camille and they also form a relationship. This film does really well in exploring relationships and love and the modern dating society. It's all handled with care and tenderness and warm humour. Performances are exceIlent, especially Noemie Merlant and Makita Samba. I really enjoyed this film and how it didn't lean into cliches at all.

All though a bit bumpy at the start, Paris 13th District smooths out any issues and comes home in style. Edgy and sleek, the plot is engaging, the cast is top notch and the directing does the job. Naomie Merlant is on a roll since the Lady on Fire and is becoming an engaging and versatile actress. Sophomore Makita Samba plays the male lead and does so with a character loaded with style and aplomb. Newcomer Lucie Zhang also does well although some may find her character a bit overdone. All total a watch worth watching

One of the best movies of 2021. I don't understand why it is not brought up in the same conversation as The Worst Person in the World and Drive My Car. Compelling in its direction, story, and score, plus featuring some truly breakout performances, it's a shame this didn't get the attention from the film crowd it deserved.

Paris 13 District. Not much happens. People do people things. Then they do some more things. They do them in quintessentially French ways. Then the film ends with the leads in relationships with who you would expect if you were asked to predict them halfway through.

The world really needed the 10,000,000th movie about a triangle, with always exactly same plot (in two flavour, with or without queers) - and same related fanbase, a curious mash-up of wannabe intellectuals and frustrated countryside housewives.

A new masterpiece from one of the best directors of the last 30 years, complex love stories told in a light and amusing way, and the black and white is amazing, like the screenplay and the dialogues.

A double love story... and yet doesn't feel whole. Good direction.

Very shallow, definitely don’t recommend it.

I saw Jacques Audiard's Paris, 13th District on a day when I saw five other movies. It was the only free day that I had in the week so I was cramming, therefore I didn't have a lot of time to ruminate before whisking off to the next movie. Yet, out of the sextet of movies that I saw that day, this one kept coming back to me. Something about its tapestry of people who connect either romantically or sexually or both within the whirling maelstrom of 21st century digital communication stuck with me. When my brain had time to breathe, it was the first film that I wanted to write about. I am unfamiliar with the works that inspired this film, the short comic series by American cartoonist Adriane Tomine but I am to understand that they are very internal. What is notable about Paris, 13th District is that this approach translates to Aulaird's film without feeling like a distraction. Things aren't gummed up with a lot of flashbacks, or auditory monologues. We see what the characters are thinking through their expressions and their body language. The film is an anthology of sorts about various young people living in Les Olympiades, a series of residential towers in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Aulaird's camera is in love with this district, photographed in luscious black and white by Paul Gilhaume. We see it in the backgrounds with it's vast windows and sense that within those apartments, there are a thousand lives being led and a thousand stories to be told. The few people that we meet intersect in very interesting ways. As the movie opens we meet Émilie (Lucie Zhang) as she sits on the couch naked and lazily practices karaoke into a microphone. She is not exactly a go-getter, but that doesn't mean that the opportunities aren't at her fingertips, she just lacks the ambition to put them into motion. She works dead-end jobs at a call-center and waitressing and lives in an apartment owned by her grandmother who is currently suffering from dementia in a nursing home, and whom she is chided by her mother for never visiting. Émilie is, we soon learn, in a full-blown sexual relationship with Camille (Makita Samba), a man who became her roommate when she responded to her ad and whom she assumed, based on his name, that he was a girl. Either way, she allowed him to take the room, but very soon things moved to her bed. The emotional conflict came from the fact that she was very slowly beginning to fall in love with him, but he wasn't interested. Undaunted, she joined a dating app with which she developed a near-addiction. Couple that with the story based on Tomine's "Amber Sweet", about a thirty-something student named Nora (Noémie Merlant, who bears a strange resemblance to Emma Watson) whose personal life becomes a nightmare when she goes to a nightclub in a blonde wig and is then mistaken by her fellow students for Amber Sweet, a popular online porn star. Night and day she is slut-shamed on her phone and in person. What happens is not what we expect. Most screenwriters would mine this scenario for comedy but Tomine was interested more in the human element. Nora actually calls "Amber" (Jenney Beth) and what develops is really interesting. The whole movie is like that. The stories are not so much about what happens but about how the characters respond to them and how they all connect, disconnect and reconnect via digital technology, which seems to exist in their personal space as personal space. But, the heavier work is done by the actors whose body language and facial expressions speak volumes in ways that gobs of overstated dialogue could not. I liked that about it. I liked living with this people for a short time. I liked learning about their lives and seeing how their flaws get them through, how it connects them and changes them as people.

I really enjoyed the acting, casting and the story. I would highly recommend it.

Confusing love, romance and sex in an ugly and boring district of one of the world's most beautiful cities. Like we haven't heard this one before. The only interesting part, an identity confusion causing public shaming, is dismissed entirely while leading to another path. A movie that coulda been a contender.

Very beautiful and intriguing.

Imaginative development of characters, very French.