Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You)
by Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant
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Actor: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Elijah Wood, Juliette Binoche, Natalie Portman, Steve BuscemiDirector: Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven
Brand: First Look Pictures
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
Movie Reviews of Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You)
Movie Review: Et je aussi
Summary: 5 Stars
PARIS, JE T'AIME ("Paris, I Love You", 2006) is a fun, funny and extremely moving film. It was a film I avoided for a long time because, well, I avoided such things a few years back. How wrong I was to do so. This film is about people, ordinary people from all over who love and have intimate links with Paris.
These are all vignettes, of course, rendered by 22 directors whom I will list for you along with their segments:
Olivier Assayas (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
Frédéric Auburtin (segment "Quartier Latin") (transitions)
Emmanuel Benbihy (transitions)
Gurinder Chadha (segment "Quais de Seine")
Sylvain Chomet (segment "Tour Eiffel")
Ethan Coen (segment "Tuileries")
Joel Coen (segment "Tuileries")
Isabel Coixet (segment "Bastille")
Wes Craven (segment "Pere-Lachaise")
Alfonso Cuarón (segment "Parc Monceau") (as Alfonso Cuaron)
Gérard Depardieu (segment "Quartier Latin")
Christopher Doyle (segment "Porte de Choisy")
Richard LaGravenese (segment "Pigalle")
Vincenzo Natali (segment "Quartier de la Madeleine")
Alexander Payne (segment "14e arrondissement")
Bruno Podalydès (segment "Montmartre") (as Bruno Podalydes)
Walter Salles (segment "Loin du 16e")
Oliver Schmitz (segment "Place des Fetes")
Nobuhiro Suwa (segment "Place des Victoires")
Daniela Thomas (segment "Loin du 16e")
Tom Tykwer (segment "Faubourg Saint-Denis")
Gus Van Sant (segment "Le Marais")
Sorry but I don't want to hog the space and put the 25 writers involved here. Also, it would be suicide to try and list all the actors.
My favorites were by the Coen brothers starring Steve Buscemi as a hapless man in love with the Mona Lisa - he's really in love just with the idea of love - and he learns a harsh lesson in the Metro as he awaits his train. Also the Van Sant segment that showed how young (possibly first) love can almost escape, in the form of a lonely gay boy who encounters another; a perceived language barrier separates them and one can only pray it isn't for good.
There is a tenderness, a deep rich quality, that reminds me of French cooking oddly enough. This movie also spawned a rather pathetic American remake entitled NEW YORK I LOVE YOU (2008).
I have seen PARIS piecemeal several times, taking in the different courses over several viewings as it were. I do not think I could tolerate this in one sitting. I'm not big on montages ... but if you love good cinema, want a "Whitman's Sampler" of great directors, love France or Paris ... oh I could go on! Just get this! Forget the wretched COFFEE AND CIGARETTES or the silly remake CHOCOLAT.
This film is the French film of all time (except for ARMY OF SHADOWS, see my review).
Summary of Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You)
In PARIS, JE T'AIME, celebrated directors from around the world, including the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, Wes Craven, Walter Salles, Alexander Payne and Olivier Assayas, have come together to portray Paris in a way never before imagined. Made by a team of contributors as cosmopolitan as the city itself, this portrait of the city is as diverse as its creators' backgrounds and nationalities. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in oe of the city's neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyond the 'postcard' view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen. Racial tensions stand next to paranoid visions of the city seen from the perspective of an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer's bourgeois environs. An American starlet finds escape as she is shooting a movie. A man is torn between his wife and his lover. A young man working in a print shop sees and desires another young man. A father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. A couple tries to add spice to their sex life. These are but a few of the witty and serendipitous narratives that make up PARIS, JE T'AIME.Even with the impressive talent involved, Paris, je t'aime could've ended up like a fallen soufflé. Though all 18 films aren't equally successful, they hit the mark more often than not. Romantics anticipating happy love stories set amongst the City of Lights may be disappointed to find that many are quite sad and that some parts of Paris are less inviting than others (each takes place in a different district). Further, the shorts aren't all en Français, since the actors and directors hail from around the world, but their outsider perspectives lend the project depth. The strongest entries are provided by Gurinder Chadha (Quais De Seine), Gus Van Sant (Le Marais), Oliver Schmitz (Place des Fêtes), and Alexander Payne (14ème Arrondissement), but all find interesting ways to explore cultural misunderstandings. In Joel and Ethan Coen's tragic-comic Tuileries, tourist Steve Buscemi angers a couple simply by making eye contact. Like Miranda Richardson in Isabelle Coixet's heartbreaking Bastille, he does all his acting with his expressive face. And while Maggie Gyllenhaal speaks the language adroitly in Olivier Assayas's intriguing Quartier des Enfants Rouges, Nick Nolte (purposefully) mangles it in Alfonso Cuarón's surprisingly weak Parc Monceau. The anthology ends with Payne's audio-postcard, in which Margo Martindale's postal carrier narrates her vacation in awkward, but endearing French. Instead of another person, she falls in love with Paris, simply for allowing her to be herself. It's the perfect finish to a poignant repast, like strawberries dipped in chocolate--sweet, but not cloyingly so. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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