2006 · drama · family
Dans Paris
Directed by Christophe Honoré1h 32m2006
After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.
Our read: Dans Paris (2006) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · family entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / family, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intimate
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