Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Partly the story of a music scene, but mostly the story of a man who realises that living the dream isn’t always the best thing for your life. Vivid, immersive and blessed with a perfectly nostalgic soundtrack.
As great as everything she’s made before, and possibly even a little better.
Mia Hansen-Løve’s tremendously stylish film about a Paris DJ coolly shuns a traditional narrative to move in time with its own ambient beat.
It's an intriguing and pulsating variation on the rake's progress-type fable.
Far from this being a mundane cautionary tale, however, Hansen-Løve finds noble beauty in it all, seamlessly structuring the drama in a naturalistic way so the repetitive beats of the soundtrack echo the repetitive beats of her protagonist’s existence, subtly underscoring how music should be a reflection of a life, not a replacement for one.
Mia Hansen-Løve recreates the heady rush of 90s Paris clubland in an evocative essay on youth and experience.
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