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| Paris Je TAime Paris I Love You In PARIS, I LOVE YOU, "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 icts Creators' backgrounds and nationalities. With EACH director Telling the Story Of An unusual encounter in oe of the City's Neighborhood, 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 From the perspective seen of an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from Her Own Into Her domestic situation employing's bourgeois environs. An American starlet did escape Finds She Is shooting a movie. A Man Is Torn Between His Wife and His Lover. A young man working in a print shop and desires Sees Another young man. A father grapples With His Relationship With His Daughter complex. A couple tries to add spice to Their sex life. These Are A Few Of The purpose witty and serendipitous narratives That Make up PARIS, I LOVE YOU.CommentsOcie Whitfield says... Who doesn't love Paris?As magical as Amelie, Paris Je T'aime is a charmer, and like a box of French chocolates, this collection of 18 short films has something to please everyone. Subtitled "Petite romances," eighteen directors participated in this omnibus project, each assigned to a different Paris arrondissement (neighborhood) to make a short (8-minute) film about love in its many variations, whether romantic, gay, maternal, paternal, unrequited, fading, or learning to love oneself. Directors include:Olivier Assayas, Fr Posted on March 5, 2011 Carlos Mycroft says... To be honest I came away from this movie wondering what it was that I had just seen. "Paris Je t'aime" is a string of eighteen separate vignettes, an average of 5 minutes long, peaking into the "window" of someone's life. The stories take place in different areas of Paris, with some in English and others in French, a veritable montage of acting cameos. The first thing you want to do afterwards is try to remember each story. The vignettes range from the utterly bizarre to the absolutely heart stirring. My favorite two happen to occur near the beginning and at the end of the film. One of the earliest stories explores the oddly wonderful bloom of attraction between a wisecracking teenage guy and a devout young Muslim girl on a street. The other story at the end sort of sums it up for me. A single woman vacationer from Denver falls in love with Paris. She realizes how alone she is at that moment and as well as in her life, and yet at the same time concludes that it is going to be alright after all. Her epiphany in the park in Paris will melt your heart. Rather than tossing around cliches or fishing for trends and themes in this remarkable film, let me end simply by saying that this is not a movie to miss! If the stories present a Paris and it's people as bizarre, sad, unfair, romantic, and yes, sometimes ugly and violent, well.......c'est la vie. Posted on March 6, 2011 Mirian Footman says... Originally written Nov 27, 2007... I've never been to Paris, but have always had it on my list of places to visit. The history, the art, the culture are all well documented. That's why it's the most visited city in the world. More tourists flock to Paris each year than to any other location on the planet. I hope to count myself among those numbers some time soon, and the urge for going was increased a thousand-fold by the film I watched last night: "Paris je t'aime" The tagline for the film is "Stories of love. From the city of love.", but it's so much more than that. Featuring eighteen short films by twenty different directors, the five minute segments are each devoted to a different neighborhood in Paris, and each have their distinctive stamp. All of them are moving in their own way, some for good, some not, but that's really up to the individual. Standouts include the contributions by Joel & Ethan Coen, Olivier Assayas, Isabel Coxiet, and Alexander Payne. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy the others, (I did apart from a segment on mimes and another on hairdressers) it's just that those were particularly good, especially Payne's American woman alone in Paris. I've not been so moved by a film in years, and I can't stress enough how good it is. A + Posted on March 6, 2011 Cedric Winterrowd says... Directed by a slew of the very best directors (Alfonso Cuaron, The Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Alexander Payne to name a few), "Paris Je t'aime" is a mixed bag of short vignettes about the who's, the why's and the wherefore's of love set in the City of Love: Paris. As is usually the case in this type of enterprise, the directors with the best scripts and the best technique and vision come off the best. The amazing thing is that producers Emmanuel Benbihy and Claudie Ossard have double-handedly breathed new life in what was thought of as a pretty much dead, at least in its commercial art form entity ...the short film, by assembling 18 films made by 21 directors. In one of the best and most effective and affecting, "Bastille," a man (Sergio Castellito) on the verge of leaving his wife (Miranda Richardson) for his mistress learns that the wife is terminally ill and decides to stay with her. The main character's wall-to-wall stream-of-consciousness takes us through the whole story in voice-over: "by acting like I was in love, I fell in love with my wife again." In "14 Posted on March 7, 2011 Merri Butta says... Paris, Je T'Aime Twenty filmmakers were collected along with a laundry list of top level actors to create a collection of short films, each five minutes long, each representing one of Paris's 18 districts.The result is often understated and sometimes surprising, but worth watching if you like independent film-making and don't mind sub-titles.While not really a traditional "movie" to be enjoyed, it's a nice collection of films for lovers of Paris or international cinema. The Story and the Script The stories of "Paris Je T'aime" are a collection of clich Posted on March 7, 2011 Rashad Houghtaling says... It was amazing how each director in 5 minutes pulled you into each story so fast! We had just returned from an actual trip to Paris and it was amazing how they got each area of Paris and its different nuances! INCREDIBLE! I never right reviews, but had to share my thoughts about this, can't wait to buy it! Posted on March 8, 2011 Isaac Knower says... Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty. And "Paris, Je T'aime" explores all the sides of the city in in eighteen brief fiolms, all set in various arrondissements of Paris, and directed by some brilliantly underrated directors. And they seem to be about love -- often it's a person, but each one is also an ode to Paris itself. A somewhat lonely Denver mailwoman (Margo Martindale) makes her first trip to Paris, and recounts how "I fell in love with Paris, and Paris fell in love with me." A mime spreads colour and mischief on his way to love. Two strangers fall in love in a bar. A medic learns that a dying man is in love with her, and seeking her out inadvertantly led to his death at the hands of a racist gang. A young boy leaves his misogynistic pals behind, to seek love with a young Muslim girl.A pair of British people visit the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere-Lachaise, an American actress falls for her drug dealer, and a young nanny's dismal living conditions are a stark contrast to that of the people she works for. All these -- and more -- are intertwined gently in the finale. But two stand out especially. Tom Tykwer's includes a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) receiving a call from his American actress girlfriend (Natalie Portman). She tells him, "Our spring was wonderful but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn... our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise." In his sorrow, he thinks back to how they met, and how their relationship continued... and gets a surprise. And Vincenzo Natali turns in a bloody, gothic love story. A young American tourist (Elijah Wood) is walking alone at night, when he steps in a pool of blood. He follows the blood to where a beautiful vampire (Olga Kurylenko) is slurping someone to death -- only to have a sudden attraction bloom up between them. When he has a fall, what will happen? "Paris Je T'aime" has it all -- comedy, tragedy, romance, racial tension, religion, vampires, sunlit vacations, glamour and cliches. Okay, there's the occasional dud -- "Tuileries," about an American tourist by the Coen Bros., is just lame. But since all the directors are given only about five minutes, most of them are tiny, polished gems without any extraneous material. Natali's is colourless (except for blood) and eerie, Gurinder Chadha's is shyly sweet and sunny, Richard LaGravenese's is adorable, Craven's is syrupy, and Tykwer's is a delicate web of camera tricks and blurred glimpses. Sylvain Chomet even charms us with mimes zooming through the streets. And each brings another dimension of Paris to life, from lush green parks to bars to the Eiffel Tower itself. And the acting is just as great -- the great Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Catalina Moreno, Marianne Faithfull, Fanny Ardant, G Posted on March 9, 2011 Nadene Bellmore says... It's always fun to have a film experience where one can go through new territory that stimulates and surprises.'Paris Je' T'aime' is such a movie.Made like an exceptional French five-course meal, we are given mini-films that are shot and set in different arrondissements (districts, roughly) in Paris, France.Sporting an all-star cast and directed by a who's who of directors, `Paris...' offers a tasty variety of stories and scenes.While certain courses will always be favorites, all the items are prepared to perfection.The shift in stories are not always connected, but neither is a French meal, which may shift distinctly to a cheese plate.Anyhow, the films are often funny, eye-catching, surprising, witty, and scary--each one a jaunt.Actresses, immigrant Muslims, love stories, tourists, and new-found infatuations are but a few of the ingredients used.I wanted to resist comparisons, but while not interlocking vignettes like 'Nine Lives,' the latter film has two things in common with 'Paris Je' T'aime'.One is that there are several stories; the other is that both movies often zero in on pivotal points in people's lives.In one mini-film a blind man discovers a young woman in distress, only to find she is practicing for a part she wishes to obtain in a Paris drama.We watch as we notice the time-lapsed relationship in all its distinctive detail.To just touch base, another film is a heart-warming and quirky family tale all done in mime.Marcell Marceau popped into my mind throughout their fun rendition. One can't get enough of Paris, and I felt that 'Paris Je 'T'aime' was more than an adequate sampler of the richness of Parisian life. (With Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gerard Depardieu, Elijah Wood, and director Wes Craven, et al.) Posted on March 10, 2011 Larisa Girouard says... Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty. And "Paris, Je T'aime" explores all the sides of the city in in eighteen brief fiolms, all set in various arrondissements of Paris, and directed by some brilliantly underrated directors. And they seem to be about love -- often it's a person, but each one is also an ode to Paris itself. A somewhat lonely Denver mailwoman (Margo Martindale) makes her first trip to Paris, and recounts how "I fell in love with Paris, and Paris fell in love with me." A mime spreads colour and mischief on his way to love. Two strangers fall in love in a bar. A medic learns that a dying man is in love with her, and seeking her out inadvertantly led to his death at the hands of a racist gang. A young boy leaves his misogynistic pals behind, to seek love with a young Muslim girl. A pair of British people visit the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere-Lachaise, an American actress falls for her drug dealer, and a young nanny's dismal living conditions are a stark contrast to that of the people she works for. All these -- and more -- are intertwined gently in the finale. But two stand out especially. Tom Tykwer's includes a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) receiving a call from his American actress girlfriend (Natalie Portman). She tells him, "Our spring was wonderful but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn... our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise." In his sorrow, he thinks back to how they met, and how their relationship continued... and gets a surprise. And Vincenzo Natali turns in a bloody, gothic love story. A young American tourist (Elijah Wood) is walking alone at night, when he steps in a pool of blood. He follows the blood to where a beautiful vampire (Olga Kurylenko) is slurping someone to death -- only to have a sudden attraction bloom up between them. When he has a fall, what will happen? "Paris Je T'aime" has it all -- comedy, tragedy, romance, racial tension, religion, vampires, sunlit vacations, glamour and cliches. Okay, there's the occasional dud -- "Tuileries," about an American tourist by the Coen Bros., is just lame. But since all the directors are given only about five minutes, most of them are tiny, polished gems without any extraneous material. Natali's is colourless (except for blood) and eerie, Gurinder Chadha's is shyly sweet and sunny, Richard LaGravenese's is adorable, Craven's is syrupy, and Tykwer's is a delicate web of camera tricks and blurred glimpses. Sylvain Chomet even charms us with mimes zooming through the streets. And each brings another dimension of Paris to life, from lush green parks to bars to the Eiffel Tower itself. And the acting is just as great -- the great Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Catalina Moreno, Marianne Faithfull, Fanny Ardant, G Posted on March 16, 2011 Loura Lizer says... Paris, Je T'aime is an amazing movie that really depicts the French (Paris in particular) culture perfectly. This movie shows the viewer most of the arrondisements of Paris and tells a story of love from each. Truly an amazing movie with many famous actors. The film is half in english and half in French, with subtitles when needed. Posted on March 17, 2011 Leave a Comment |
