Eighteen different directors and a slew of indie actors come together for PARIS, JE T'AIME, a cinematic homage to the City of Light. Each director presents his or her own short story set in a different Parisian quarter, each one featuring a different cast of characters.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Claudie Ossard, Ethan Coen
EAN
5050582514568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62241286
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title
Paris, Je T'aime
Actor
Nick Nolte, Gena Rowlands, Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Juliette Binoche, Elijah Wood, Rufus Sewell, Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gerard Depardieu, Emily Mortimer
Director
Wes Craven, Joel Coen, Frederic Auburtin, Isabel Coixet, Gurinder Chadha, Vincenzo Natali, Ethan Coen, Olivier Assayas, Christoffer Boe, Alexander Payne, Gus Van Sant, Gerard Depardieu, Sylvain Chomet, Christopher Doyle
Subtitle Language
English
Format
DVD
Language
English\French
Release Year
2008
Features
Widescreen, Making of Paris, Je T'aime, With Subtitles
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Genre
Drama, General
Run Time
115 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
France
Reviews
Empire - Love is here in all of its many guises, brought together with a touch of subtitled sophistication
Consumer Advice
Contains very strong language
Additional Information
Eighteen different directors and a slew of indie actors come together for PARIS, JE T'AIME, a cinematic homage to the City of Light. Each director presents his or her own short story set in a different Parisian quarter, each one featuring a different cast of characters. The pieces vary in length, with some of them striving to tell a fully developed tale--no matter how simple the plot--while others are more abstract, content to rely on sparse dialogue and vivid imagery. With directors such as Gus Van Sant, Alexander Payne, Wes Craven, and the Coen brothers participating, the tales are as varied and oddball as one might expect. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a lonely actress with a fondness for her hash dealer. Elijah Wood encounters a seductive vampire on a moonlit street. Steve Buscemi is a flustered tourist. Natalie Portman falls for a deaf Frenchmen. Each tale is markedly unique, and specific to the quirky style of its director, and the film is a veritable Who's Who for indie buffs. In the moments when it succeeds, the movie can feel mysterious and magical, evoking the romance and longing the city is famous for.
My husband has watched most of this film and I have watched about a half of it. Neither of us liked it very much; we didn't think the snapshot approach worked; although some stories were more successful than others. The atmosphere of the city was not terribly well captured, nor the quirkiness of the inhabitants (many of the stories were concerned with foreigners/tourists).