Lost in Paris (2017) poster
2017 · comedy · disaster

Lost in Paris

Directed by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel1h 23m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.34kRT87%Metacritic74
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / disaster, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

Our read · Lost in Paris (2017) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · disaster entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want to laugh at clumsy physical comedy amid Parisian chaos.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want tightly plotted stories with big stakes or polish.

If Lost in Paris is your film
Amélie (2001)
whimsical Parisian charm and visual gags
(more plot heavy)
The Fairy (2011)
same directors' deadpan physical comedy
(even more minimalist)
Rumba (2008)
same directors' quirky French style
(even stranger tone)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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