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Paris Je T'aime
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Format | Digital |
Contributor | Marianne Faithful, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vidya Balan, Natalie Portman, Gerard Depardieu |
Language | French |
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A collection of vignettes from twenty acclaimed filmmakers are woven together to form a portrait of love on the streets of Paris. Aided by an outstanding roll call of acting talent, each director has been given five minutes of screen time, each with a different cast and crew for their segment, to represent the twenty arrondissements, or districts, that make up the city. The end result, combining the individual styles of the directors with the diverse atmospheres, cultures and lifestyles of these districts, not only reflects the main theme of love, but also presents a unique portrait of the city of dreams, one rarely seen in mainstream cinema. Directors featured include the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven, Walter Sallas, and Gurinder Chadha.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : French
- Package Dimensions : 19.2 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm; 80 Grams
- Item Model Number : 5050582514568
- Media Format : Digital
- Actors : Vidya Balan, Gerard Depardieu, Marianne Faithful, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Universal
- ASIN : B000V4IO6C
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 66,829 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Some directors I already know; some are new to me. Some try something new, whilst others follow well-trodden paths. Thus Gurinder Chadha explores the melding of different cultures; Gus van Sant portrays a humorous gay pick-up; Joel and Ethan Coen provide a comic take on Paris's romantic reputation; Walter Salles looks at the city from the view of an immigrant nanny; Tom Tykwer looks at the uncanny; and Alexander Payne sees both the funny and sad sides in everyday experience. Who's missing? Well, it would have been nice to see the likes of Michael Haneke or Patrice Chereau make contributions, but I'm not complaining.
Such short films do not allow for much detailed characterisation, of course, but most are nevertheless satisfying in themselves, short vignettes of what may have been full-length feature films. Most of the directors also wrote their screenplays. Some directors play the game in a standard manner; some adopt a more quirky (Coen brothers) or even surreal approach (Christopher Doyle). There's even one with husband-and-wife mime artists, both corny and comic at the same time and certainly the one that made me laugh the most.
And it's more often the case that each arrondissement's tourist hotspot is not depicted as the backdrop to each romance. Whether this was done to avoid cliché or whether the plotline of the story had no need for the city's leading sights to intrude is superficially explored in the DVD's twenty-five-minute `Making of' extra, but the film itself still manages to feature the Eiffel Tower, Pere Lachaise, the Montparnasse Tower. It's a shame, though, that no scenes are set on the city's bridges.
It would be difficult to argue that all eighteen of these films could not have been shot anywhere else but in Paris, yet it is also true that most - through either visual or verbal means - would look confusing or out of place if shot, say in London instead. In that sense, this film really does possess and communicate some of the multiple personas of Paris. Consequently, anyone with a love for this city will probably like this film.

There are eighteen films each shot in a different arrondissement in Paris. Films to be enjoyed, to laugh at, to cry at and to make one think. This is a couple of hours of very enjoyable viewing.
It is surprising how quickly all of the films seem to be viewed at the end of which there is an epilogue which with music (a beautiful waltz, La Meme Histoire) that is truly beautiful. The collection of films is something that one may want to revisit from time to time and as there is such diversity in the style and in the storytelling in each film, that there should always be much or at least something to enjoy.
All, stories of love, but all very very different.

