After the success of L'auberge Espangnole and Les Poupées russes, two films about the living conditions of young people, in 2008, Cédric Klapisch took his beloved actor Romain Duris for this Paris. A city, and such a great city, how difficult it must be. Cédric Klapisch, who was born on the edge of Paris in Neuilly, firmly captured the feeling of Paris in such a film: every picture, every scene, from the subway in the shuttle city, the roadside The café, the narrow staircase in the apartment, the lawn to the Luxembourg Gardens, and the Eiffel Tower used by everyone to orient themselves, are all familiar to anyone who has lived in Paris, but they are always busy. In the dead life, we are ignored.
So in Paris, Cédric Klapisch ties together these everyday and forgotten stories, telling them through the eyes of a terminally ill man living alone in Paris. A history professor who has fallen in love with a beautiful schoolgirl who has been living in the shadow of a more successful brother, a 40-year-old single woman with two children who works for government relief, and a job at night The fruit sellers of the 2016-19-2010, as well as the Cameroonian immigrants who wrote postcards to their families, everyone's story is so ordinary, but so beautiful. Such beauty is always ignored by people, even by themselves. More often, they are just ordinary Parisians who will encounter various difficulties. In the end, it turns out that not everyone is alone in the city, but Yes everyone needs someone else.
A beautiful story cannot escape the cruelty of life. Pierre's physical strength is often exhausted due to the deterioration of his condition, the car accident of the female fruit stall owner, and the failure of the history professor's hopeful yearning love. In the face of such problems Sometimes, some people came over, and some people were still groping when they were lost. Time goes by, when the memory becomes blurred, what should be remembered is left helplessly, when the words "chez moi ou chez toi" are said, even in front of this beautiful woman, no one can continue, Only choose to leave.
This is a city full of contradictions, pierre still has to leave in the end, leave this city, and even leave this world. At the same time, a new seeker crossed the ocean from Cameroon, carrying a postcard from his brother in his arms, and came here. Paris.
When he looked at the tattered postcard in his hand and compared the beauty in front of him, Pierre was lying in the taxi, sighing about the magic of Paris, and I sat in the cinema with tears streaming down my face.
There's a song in the trailer that doesn't appear in the movie, and Paris, like the song's title:
Somewhere only we know
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