Paris (2009)

A French film centered around the lives of various Parisians explores the culture of Paris and humanity in general

   More foreign films. This was my first French movie and it was VERY French. The film style was decidedly not American or German, the music was all very jazz-techno-cafe-like, and the acting was so natural some might see it as simply bad acting. However, it was a charming movie that very closely detailed just a short while in our characters' lives. 

    The color of the movie was interesting to me. It was all very brown, gray, and other pale colors. The only real color was in flashbacks of one of the characters, a sick ex-Cabaret dancer who wears a silver suit and blood-red shirt. It rained a lot in the movie, too, or snowed. It looked rather drab, but it added to the grungy realism. 

    The acting as stated before, was very natural. The emotions were raw, characters were neither bad nor good, and most of them were very confusing. Like real people. 

    This is a very long movie. It's over 2 hours, and I wouldn't recommend it as a first foreign-movie experience. It's so European that American audiences would find it tedious. As a film though, it's very well-done, if a little disappointing.