Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You)
starring: Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Catalina Sandino Moreno
directed by: Alexander Payne, Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant, Tom Tykwer, Vincenzo Natali
directed by: Alexander Payne, Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant, Tom Tykwer, Vincenzo Natali
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paris
EAN: 0687797116291
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: First Look Pictures
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Look Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 1833
Studio: First Look Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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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.
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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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- Fall in love with Paris from your living room!! I saw this film in theaters when it first came out and thought that it was as really artistically ... Read More
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- Product in great condition; on-time!Coen Bros. vignette classic. Buscemi is custom made for their "victim" roles. The rest of the video ... Read More
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- Paris, I love you, too.A poetic collection of vignettes about lives in Paris...not necessarily connected. Not perfect, by ... Read More
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- I think I'm in love...Originally written Nov 27, 2007...
I've never been to Paris, but have always had it on ... Read More
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- The one about the different kind of "love"In 2001, I enjoyed an HK film titled "Heroes in Love" which covered the various different forms of "love", ... Read More
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