Paris Is Us (2019)

Anna misses the flight she should have taken to find Greg in Barcelona. The plane crashes.

Director:

Elisabeth Vogler

Writers:

Rémi Bassaler, Paul Saïsset

Stars:

Noémie Schmidt, Grégoire Isvarine, Marie Mottet

Cast

Cast overview:
Noémie Schmidt
Grégoire Isvarine
Marie Mottet
Lou Castel
Alexandre Schreiber	...	(as Schreiber Alexandre)
Margaux Bonin
Julia Kouakou
Mathias Minne
Clément Olivieri
Theo Tagand

Storyline

Anna misses the flight she should have taken to find Greg in Barcelona. The plane crashes. Taken in the vertigo of a death that has been narrowly avoided, she moves away from reality and the present. As his couple breaks up, Paris becomes the mirror of his distress.

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official crowdfunding site

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

22 February 2019 (France)

Also Known As:

Paris is us

Company Credits

Production Co:

21juin Cinema, French Lab Agency, Les Idiots

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

After the end credits, there's a text that reads: "This movie wouldn't exist without the determination and patience of the people whose names you've just read. It wouldn't have been finished without the support of the following names. Thanks to everybody." More names are credited on screen while a final sequence with the main character is shown.

User Reviews

A bewildering trance-like sequence stretched out into a whole film

Anna meets Greg at a disco and after a whirlwind romance, long enough for him to grow a beard at least, he announces out of the blue his intention to move from their Paris home to Barcelona.

Even during this first section of the film, the narrative thread is hard to grasp with many cuts between different times and places - a beach, a park and an abandoned theatre, for instance.

But as the story approaches the doomed flight to Barcelona, things get really trance-like and surreal. Perhaps it all reflects Anna's increasingly tenuous grasp on a reality, which itself now seems to play out against a backdrop of constant and confused civil unrest.

The camera is mostly hand-held and while some of the shots feel too close, others, especially those with actual riot police apparently completely surrounding the action of the movie are exceptional. The camera follows Anna, well played by Noémie Schmidt, pretty much all the way through.

The final result, though, is just too disjointed and voice-overs used throughout the film aren't quite enough to keep things together. For some too, I guess that the frequent strobe effects (perhaps carried through from the disco at the start), might well feel a bit too much. 5/10