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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: First Look Pictures
Salesrank: 1216
Released: November 13, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You):
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
Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You) Reviews:
If this is Paris, I don't want to go there 
2009-10-20 - These short little vignettes don't ever add up to anything. After 3 or 4 the cliches start piling on and it's boring. They might as well have filmed this in Kansas City as far as learning about or even simply seeing Paris. Apparently there is absolutely nothing to see or do in Paris It's just like any other nondescript city in the western world, and it's extremely violent and unfriendly. If this is truly Paris I don't want to go there. I love French movies as I am French myself but this one is simply phony. Out of the 20 French movies I have on my shelf this one goes right to the bottom of my list.
great! 
2009-10-15 - I had seen a couple of these in my college french class, and liking them I decided to get the whole DVD.
The shorts are really lovely, a lot of content in a small amount of time.
I'm very happy with the purchase.
Like finding life and love all over anew!
2009-09-20 - I saw this film on the Sundance Channel and was absolutely stunned! I ordered the two-dvd set. I don't collect many films but this film brought something anew to my life and I knew I had to have a copy of my own. I did not find this film to be an "evening waster", but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don't think you will ever forget this film if you see it.
The only problem I have with this particular item as a purchase is that the Bonus DVD has technical problems starting about one third of the way into it. The image starts to look like a satellite image breaking up due to interference during transmission. The DVD physically does not look damaged. I think it is the recording of the data itself perhaps in the duplication stage of manufacture.
The movie DVD itself is fine.
So...it is probably best to purchase the movie only. Too bad, because there were some interesting interviews on the Bonus DVD before it started breaking up!
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Paris tu m'ennuies a mourir. Paris you bore me to death. 
2009-09-20 - Overly sappy, dripping with saccharine touchy-feely good intentions. Filled with conventionally politically correct clichés, facile self-indulgent sentimentalism; the result is pretentious to the point of exasperation. Commercial cinema that tries to pass as art. On the whole hopelessly boring (and I am French...). An evening waster. Stay well away.
Good stories, all excellent acting 
2009-08-28 - I love most foreign films. This is foreign with some English. I enjoyed it.
