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 Video Rental
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.
...that you would do anything for them.
There are two versions of the film...the one you want is the full length Directors version (178 mins) released in 1991, not the shortened one although that's ok. Very hard to get on DVD although there is an Australian version in Pal format (I bought mine on QXL, try eBay also).
Beatrice Dalle is fabulous as Betty and Jean Hughes Anglade is outstanding (as he was in La Femme Nikita and Killing Zoe) as Zorg. The supporting cast are both eclectic and superb. Damn, I am running out of adjectives.
I could go on about the film for hours but I don't want to take away any of the effect it will undoubtedly have on you so I will just say that it's a very tragic love story (a screwed up Romeo & Juliet) which charts the descent of Betty into madness and the heights of delight and the depths of despair...
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Advantages: like nothing you've ever seen, will make you laugh, may make you cry Disadvantages: don't let the sub-titles put you off
...Pardon my French, but you see, I’ve fallen for this girl and she’s got me saying and seeing the craziest things. She has the face of an angel and the heart of a saint. If you saw her she’d have you at it as well. Her name is Amelie. Let me tell you about her…
Amelie Poulain had a strange loveless childhood. Looking at her now as she rushes around the cobbled streets of Montmarte (that’s in Paris, don’t ya know) and tends to le patrons at the “Deux Moulins” café it’s hard to believe that as a child she was diagnosed, by her father of all people, a doctor and a cold man, as having a dodgy heart. Clearly a misdiagnosis, for as you will find out, the condition of Amelie’s heart is 24 caret.
However this was enough to have poor Amelie removed from school to be educated at home...
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Advantages: Acoustic tracks galore, new take on Floyd classics, beautiful show... Disadvantages: Not enough extras, home movie could have been longer, no Kate Bush...
...say? The Great Man wants it to be just so; he is a perfectionist, after all.
The three bonus tracks ('Dominoes', 'Breakthrough' and 'Comfortably Numb') from David's three-day tenure at the Royal Festival Hall the following January should please fans who attended those shows (and had probably hoped that this DVD would actually be a Best Of January 2002 mini-tour instead of concentrating solely on the previous year's Meltdown). That said, something from Paris as well as, or instead of, one of the above wouldn't have gone amiss. There's no "Who gives a f*ck?" (in response to a wag asking when the next Floyd album will be out), but there's plenty of light-hearted banter throughout the gig, including the tale of how, in 1969, an electrical surge from David's mic stand left him in the drum kit, bless his cotton socks.
Personally, if I had...
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somewhat helpful 18.10.2005
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