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French | Revoir Paris |
Directed by | Alice Winocour |
Written by | Alice Winocour |
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Cinematography | Stéphane Fontaine |
Edited by | Julien Lacheray |
Music by | Anna von Hausswolff |
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Distributed by | Pathé |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $3.7 million[1] |
Paris Memories (French: Revoir Paris) is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by Alice Winocour.[2] The film stars Virginie Efira as Mia, a woman who is struggling with the lingering mental health effects of having survived a terrorist attack in Paris months earlier.[3]
The film's cast also includes Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin, Maya Sansa, Amadou Mbow, Nastya Golubeva, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Sofia Lesaffre and Clarisse Makundul.
The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.[4] It is had its North American premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[5] It was released theatrically in France on 7 September 2022 by Pathé.[6]
The film received critical acclaim. Paris Memories has an approval rating of 94% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 64 reviews, and an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Further distinguished by Virginie Efira's superb performance, Revoir Paris explores trauma's aftermath with devastating tenderness".[7] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generaly favorable reviews".[8]