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  Review by David Sims ★★★½

  ah, to be in Paris, worrying that you've become a boring lover

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★½

  “You’re sweet. You’re soft.” 

  Yes yes yes very into this - it understands the very delicate triangle where sex and softness and self-doubt intersect, but as part of an everyday just-getting-through-it thing rather than a stop-everything-this-is-a-movie-ABOUT-sex thing. Elegant and restrained in the framing and pacing, yet so vibrant and beguiling in every performance (all amazing but Lucie Zhang!!!) and that very good very Parisian score (Rone!). And, like, to imagine Sciamma ping-ponging between writing Petite Maman and this? J’obsessed!

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 1

  CIFF 2021: film #5 (57th chicago international film festival)

  “you got it wrong, camille. so did i. we both got it wrong”

  mon dieu! so pleased to be ending my virtual fest this year with such a dreamy knockout of a film. lush black and white photography intimately captures the complicated bonds the characters share and then scales back to show the city at large. the story takes turns i wasn’t expecting and finishes on such a wonderful note, stirring up that old forgotten feeling of watching romance films come to a beautiful close and leaving me with a high that’s similar to winning the superbowl. magnifique

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  Review by rosiee ★★★★

  ugh hot french people fucking and being terrible at communicating is honestly such a vibe, i loved this film

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  Review by maria ★★★★½

  NAWT THE LESBIAN TWIN SYNDROME

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  Review by ItsMaya ★★★★

  Portrait of a Lady online

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★

  Black and White is the Warmest Color

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★

  First film of the day, and there was a lot I liked here!

  Without pandering too much, it does feel like a modern, convoluted love story. It also has a superb score/soundtrack an amazing performance by Noémie Merlant. The characters were each fascinating and flawed in their own ways, and I liked the way it balanced storylines.

  All this being said, it seemed like it wanted to be more prestige than it was. It seemed like a romcom format that went black and white so it could play at festivals? It also occasionally felt drawn out, and I wanted a bit more focus from the director. There were also certain character motivations I didn’t totally understand.

  This film is a mood, it’s very french and sexually charged so I could see it building a strong audience. If you’re looking for a love story that’s not at all sappy, it’s quite interesting.

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  Review by wilhelmvega ★★★★ 1

  This made me realize I should have sex with strangers more often

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½

  There are two million stories in the City of Lights, and these are some of them. Threading three Adrian Tomine graphic novels into a vaguely dreamlike (if occasionally sleepy) latticework of interweaving stories about love and sex, and sex, and sex, in modern France, Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, 13th District” begins with a scene that proves mighty emblematic of the film to come.

  Okay, technically it begins with a brief flash-forward and some woozy aerial shots of the title arrondissement — a diverse neighborhood of high-rises that erupted out of an Olympic-themed renovation program in the 1970s — as Paul Guilhaume’s camera peers into apartment windows and the symphony of urban life floods onto the soundtrack. But things don’t really get…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★

  absolutely adored every second of this happy valentine’s day to ME !!!

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  Review by shookone ★★★

  Audiard goes down the trouble-free road, coming around with a romantic drama lingering between Melo and mellow - easy to watch, easy to like. sex and love and sex and identity and sex and work and sex and love. some things work very well (the teacher-flatmate story), some not (the whole Noémie Merlant university-embarrassment-sexworker-twin-love thingy), but all in all it's something to watch away on a rainy sunday afternoon. fun, french, effortless.