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Directors/Writers:
Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emanuelle
Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan
Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón,
Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese,
Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès,
Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela
Thomas, Tom Tykwer and Gus Van Sant.
Screenplay:
Tristan Carné (idea)
Cast (among others):
Gaspard (Le Marais): Gaspard Ulliel
The Tourist (Tuileries): Steve Buscemi
Suzanne (Place des Victoires): Juliette
Binoche
Claire (Parc Monceau): Ludivine Sagnier
Fanny (Pigalle): Fanny Ardant
Francine (Faubourg Saint Denis): Nathalie
Portman
Café’s Owner (Quartier Latin):
Gérard Depardieu
Running time: 116’
Production: France, 2006
Rating: R (for language)
Gauge: 35mm (color)
Distributor:
First Look Pictures
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"Each
segment was written or co-written by its helmer, except
"Quartier Latin," which was penned by Gena Rowlands
but co-helmed by Gerard Depardieu and Frederic Auburtin.
Some installments boast definite punchlines, while others
capture a mood or offer up an open-ended slice of life.
The 18 episodes have been strung together in an order
that feels right, balanced about as well as can be hoped
for with no real narrative cement except the umbrella
brief to make a five minute love story in the assigned
quarter."
Lisa, Nesselson, Variety. |
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Paris,
je t'aime is a patchwork of eighteen short films by different
directors. Each one had to tell a story located in one of
Paris' “arrondissements” in less than five minutes
and on a relatively tight budget. This atypical collective
film bears the hallmark of major international filmmakers
and the names of stellar actors such as Natalie Portman, Gena
Rowlands, Elijah Wood, Ben Gazzara and Catherine Deneuve.
Among the many witty and serendipitous narratives that make
up this portrayal of Paris, 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 father grapples
with his complex relationship with his daughter. Paris,
je t'aime offers an interesting perspective on how foreign
directors see Paris. Although they are all different in style,
the films find a unity in the theme that they explore. They
all tell a story about the sometimes fragile relationships
that bind people who have recently met or who have known each
other well.
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