While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre has his world invaded by his sister Elise and her three children. The growing awareness of his impending mortality, as well as the re-discovery of his sister and her life, gives Pierre a very different sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. Meanwhile, a respected professor, Roland Verneuil, hopes for one more great romance in his life, while Jean, a vendor at an open-air market, wonders what life is left for him now that he's split from his wife-even though they continue to work together each day.
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After sojourns in Barcelona (2002’s art-house hit “L’Auberge Espagnole’’), St. Petersburg and London (2005’s “Russian Dolls’’), the French writer-director Cédric Klapisch has come home to Paris and to “Paris.’’ The new film is the best armchair holiday going - the cast is lovely to behold and the plot dips in and out of the arrondissements with panache. You almost don’t mind that none of it adds up to terribly much. (Full review)