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Duris, Louis Garrel , Guy Marchand , Joana Preiss, Alice Butaud,
Marie-France Pisier.
French sex symbols Romain Duris and
Louis Garrel join screen icons Guy Marchand and Marie-France Pisier
in writer-director Christophe Honoré's four-character chamber drama
Dans Paris (Inside Paris). Duris plays Paul, a young man in his
early thirties who splits with his girlfriend. Feeling depressed,
he opts to move into a flat with his brother Jonathan (Garrel, who
also narrates) and their father (Marchand). The ladykiller Jonathan
slyly attempts to talk Paul into a shopping trip to lift his spirits,
but ends up venturing out alone and engages in rendezvous with several
women. Meanwhile, the boys' stylishly-dressed and gorgeous mother
(Pisier) turns up and adds one more complexity to the network of
relationships in the house. Honoré laces his drama with comedic
touches and crafts the film in the gentle mode of early sixties
French pictures by Truffaut, Godard and others. |