The Paris Opera feels at once sprawling and insufficiently patient.
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Village VoiceNick Schager
Village VoiceNick Schager
Unfortunately, the film has nothing much to say other than that the enterprise is inherently complicated — which isn’t point enough for 111 minutes of screen time.
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San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
For a documentary about one of the most prestigious opera institutions in the world, The Paris Opera has, maddeningly, very little opera.
The Paris Opera is a good representation of the struggle behind the spectacle. In movies, though, it’s sometimes best to even out those proportions — a little less absolute truth, and a little more bull.