Dear Paris

Dear Paris (Paradis Paris, 2024) is Marjane Satrapi's tragicomedy you can watch online on iFILM. Across a handful of interlocking stories, several Parisians have their lives upended when death comes knocking — for some in earnest, for others almost by clerical error.

A vain Italian opera diva wakes up on a morgue table and grasps the awful truth: her passing went entirely unnoticed. A British stuntman, shaken after his son's accident, starts wondering why he spent a career throwing his body around for the camera. An eccentric elderly Colombian woman strikes a private bargain with death itself. The threads cross on the street, in cafés and backstage at the opera, each character scrambling to reconnect with whatever made life worth it. The cast features Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Eduardo Noriega and Rossy de Palma.

Satrapi, who made Persepolis, films Paris as something lived-in and faintly absurd rather than a postcard, letting laughter share a table with mortality. The 108-minute film holds its tone between sorrow and irony without ever turning preachy. It works for anyone who enjoys mosaic stories about a big city and its lovable misfits. Stream Dear Paris (2024) online on iFILM.