This is Paris, no one is happy, we whine about it, but love her at the same time - "Paris Love Story"

Clyde 2022-03-21 09:03:07

Faint, sad music flows in the ancient and avant-garde streets, overlooking the complex neighborhoods, pedestrians and vehicles are flowing and rushing, and sadness, joy, gathering and rebirth are taking place in every room and behind every window. In the vast world and the life of thousands of flowers, everyone is desperately pursuing, but they don't know what they are pursuing. As said in the film "This is Paris, no one is happy, we complain about it, but at the same time love her, in fact, life in Paris should be free and carefree". The film mainly tells about the joys and sorrows of several families living in Paris. Everyone is pursuing a happy life, but is the pursuit of happiness necessarily? Paris, a city full of stories, is as plain as water but colorful and sparkling. I really like the calm and eloquent way of expression in the film.

A family consists of two brothers and sisters. The elder sister Alice works in the government department and is divorced to raise three children alone. The younger brother Pierre is a dancer of the Paris Opera Company. He suffered an acute heart attack. The only way is a heart transplant. But the operation needs to wait for a suitable donor, facing the threat of death at any time and giving up the dance career. In depression, he looks down on the joys and sorrows of the world from the windowsill every day. His sister Alice rejects the love of men for the sake of her children, but chooses in her free time. Volunteer to help others. In order to take care of his younger brother who lost his desire to live, his family came to his younger brother's house in order to achieve a balance between work and life.

Another family consists of Roland, an old professor who teaches at the university, and his younger brother Philip. Roland recorded a Paris travel show for the TV station, and his life was smooth and proud. At the same time, he had a crush on his student Laitia. Every day, she uses her mobile phone to send messages to her to tell her her love. Laitia receives messages expressing her love every day in depression, but she doesn't know who it is, causing many misunderstandings and laughter.

Roland's architect brother Philip had a happy marriage and career. Because of his father's death, Shi Buhu suddenly felt that life was meaningless, but because of his step-by-step life, he was unable to change the status quo and fell into depression.

According to clues, Lydia found out that it was Roland who sent the text message. What was incomprehensible was that she accepted Roland's love. Like a spring breeze blowing across a dry wasteland, the belated love gave the old professor a second youth. Can a relationship last for a long time? Passion is always passion, and it comes and goes suddenly. Roland loves Lydia wholeheartedly. When he finds out that he has another boyfriend, can he still maintain this relationship when he is exhausted physically and mentally?

In order to make her younger brother who has lost his desire to live regain his courage to live, Alice specially convened her brother's former colleagues to hold a patient. The party was very joyful. Joy is the loneliness of a group of people, recalling the past, indulging in singing and dancing, and ending the hustle and bustle. Back to loneliness, it was her sister Alice who finally opened her heart and found her emotional destination.

Life moves forward slowly and unstoppably. The nagging bakery proprietress on the street corner, the vegetable vendor standing on the street corner flirting with girls, the handsome guy, the boss, and the tired waiter of the coffee shop, don't they have their own lives behind them? Paris gathers everyone who seems to be unrelated in this prosperous and ancient city alley, and the life between the two is still rolling forward in its own way. Isn't the people coming and going at the flower shop on the street corner a reflection of real life?

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Extended Reading
  • Matilda 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    Every shot is so kind. After watching it for a long time, I suddenly realized that it was Juliette Binoche, 20 years after The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Why do I always think Mélanie Laurent looks familiar?

  • Jerad 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    A period of time in Paris connected by various small details, various characters, different encounters, the shooting is a little dull, 2 hours is not too long.

Paris quotes

  • Élise: [in French] You're all alone here? What do you do all day?

    Pierre: [in French] Watch other people live. Wonder who they are, where they go? They become hereoes in my little stories.

  • Pierre: [discussing his nieces and nephew] We've gotta be honest and say I'm gonna croak.

    Élise: That's not certain.

    Pierre: Then it'll be a nice surprise, if it's not true.