Production Year: 2007 - Drama - Director: Frederic Auburtin, Vincenzo Natali, Christopher Doyle, Wes Craven, Isabel Coixet, Ethan Coen, Sylvain Chomet, Gurinder Chadha, Christoffer Boe, Gerard Depardieu, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Payne, Joel Coen, Gus Van Sant - Original Language: English\French - Classification: 15 years and over more
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... more
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Actor(s): Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Gena Rowlands, Emily Mortimer, Miranda Richardson, Rufus Sewell, Willem Dafoe, Natalie Portman, Gerard Depardieu, Bob Hoskins, Nick Nolte
Director(s): Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Alexander Payne, Olivier Assayas, Gerard Depardieu, Christoffer Boe, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Christopher Doyle, Vincenzo Natali, Frederic Auburtin
Genre: Drama
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2007
Consumer Advice: Contains very strong language
Video Category: World Cinema Feature Film
Country Of Origin: France
Plot: 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.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; ODS
Languages
Main Language: English\French
Technical information
Special Features: Making of PARIS, JE T'AIME
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD Description
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.
Professional reviews
Review: Love is here in all of its many guises, brought together with a touch of subtitled sophistication (Empire, 02/01/2008)
Advantages: The best film of all time bar none. Disadvantages: It's in French.
...be hard work for some people who like there movies simple but I would urge you to perservere! I fell in love with this watching it in Paris with NO subtitles and my French is appalling!
I have a massive poster of it framed in my hall and everybody who come sin to mi casa comments on it because it is such an excellent picture, very very classy.
Strong nude scenes, foul language (albeit in French) and some disturbing themes merited (?) an 18 certificate over here.
Please watch it and let me know what you thought!
Definately my desert island DVD....
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Advantages: A+ lineup Disadvantages: Dull, pointless, lacking energy
...and it becomes a disjointed mess leaving the viewer to wonder who thought this project up in the first place. Allen's stroy is, unsurprisingly, the best of the bunch, the quirky stock characters driving the comedy. However once it is over, there's still, as Allen's classic film Banana's coined, "still something missing."
For viewers who want a much better movie composed of short stories tied to a common geographic area are commanded to watch ParisJe t'aime, a movie I review independently elsewhere. The Coen Brother's 5 minute contribution still makes me snort milk out of my nose, even when drinking coke (it can be viewed on Youtube, just look for "Coen" and "Tuileries". Get the milk ready.)
To wrap up - unless you're a completist, it's best to skip this one....
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...This film was obviously a follow up from the original idea in An American Werewolf in London. But some sequels should never be made and this is one of the definetly. The story is 3 americans in Paris who find themselves in a strange world of werewolves. I wont waste my time writing anything more on this except to tell you--don`t watch it, watch the original american werewolf in london. The gore is limited, there's no suspense, and the decision to use computer technology to create the werewolves is little short of disastrous - they look like completely unthreatening cartoons....
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