Paris is a 2008 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Cédric Klapisch. Starring an ensemble cast, the film depicts the stories of a diverse group of people living in Paris. It began shooting in November 2006 and was released in France on 20 February 2008. Its UK release was in July 2008.

Plot

The film is set primarily in Paris, with one thread of the story set in Africa. Over the course of several months, various stories are intertwined, with different characters and plot threads intersecting.

Cast

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film featured songs from the film along with the original music credited to Kraked Unit, mostly written by Robert Burke and Loïc Dury. The album charted at number 44 in France.

Track listing

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 66% based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Alternately a sharp ensemble dramedy and a love letter to the titular city, Paris is uneven but often striking." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film a "sumptuous Gallic comedy" with "likable characters" and described it as "[b]oth a Parisian answer to Woody Allen's Manhattan and a multicharacter mosaic in the mode of Robert Altman's Short Cuts". The film won the Radio-Canada Audience Award at the 2009 edition of the Cinéfranco film festival.