We'll Never Have Paris (2014) poster
2014 · comedy · romance · coming-of-age

We'll Never Have Paris

Directed by Jocelyn Towne, Simon Helberg1h 29m2014
ElsewhereIMDb4.64kRT33%Metacritic36
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."

Our read · We'll Never Have Paris (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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 a quirky awkward romcom about a hypochondriac messing up a proposal and chasing love to Paris.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if neurotic romcom heroes and messy misunderstandings frustrate you.

DNA · twelve axes

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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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