While the English title of “Paris est à nous” reads “Paris Is Us” — it’s the title under which the film appears on Netflix — a more direct translation would be “Paris Is Ours.” While director Elisabeth Vogler has never articulated an intentional link, connotatively, the filmmaker’s title evokes Jacques Rivette’s “Paris nous appartient,” or “Paris Belongs to Us.” Rivette’s existentialist film from the French New Wave encapsulated Cold War-era paranoia; ironically, its characters are alienated from the very Paris they inhabit.Continue reading Director Elisabeth Vogler’s ‘Paris Is Us’ Can’t Make Up Its Mind [Review] at The Playlist.
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