It's a web of stories connected to Paris. Pierre is a dancer with a heart problem. He needs a heart transplant. He spends his days watching people from his apartment. His sister Elise (Juliette Binoche) is a social worker and single mother to three kids. They move into his apartment to take care of him. One of her clients is Mourad whose brother Benoit is traveling across Africa to try to enter France illegally. Roland Verneuil is a academic who becomes attracted to his student Laetitia (Mélanie Laurent). His architect brother Philippe Verneuil has pregnant wife Mélanie and nightmares about his project. Khadija with North African roots finds work in a bakery despite her racist boss. These and others form the story web. It's a lot of characters connected in various ways. Some of them are compelling. Some are less compelling. Some are even forgettable. It's a bit overloaded which makes the stories feel scattered. I would prefer fewer characters and more story in each one. This does have a sense of Paris as a place of love and connections and internationalism.
Review of Paris
