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Paris
Allison - wrote on 09/16/2009
Cédric Klapisch has created Paris, a little masterpiece. All his other films are light and perhaps trivial. I did not have high hopes for Paris, yet it excelled in so many ways.
First, you would be hard-pressed to find a better cast. Fabrice Luchini (very good with conveying emotion), Francois Cluzet (his "normal" character has unusual depth), Karin Viard (plays a manic character which is extremely against the type of roles she plays), Maurice Benichou (the reserved psychologist who has a little laugh), and Juliette Binoche (the aging single mother who only needs a little time for "herself" to help out her brother).
Secondly, though the subject matter is extremely serious and darker than a normal Klapisch film, it still has many humorous moments. Fabrice Luchini's character's …
