PARIS, JE T'AIME --

©2006
studio: First Look Pictures
production company: Victoires International, Pirol Stiftung, Canal+, X-Filme Creative Pool
dirstors:
Olivier Assayas (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
Frédéric Auburtin (segment "Quartier Latin") (transitions)
Emmanuel Benbihy (transitions)
Gurinder Chadha (segment "Quais de Seine")
Sylvain Chomet (segment "Tour Eiffel")
Ethan Coen (segment "Tuileries")
Joel Coen (segment "Tuileries")
Isabel Coixet (segment "Bastille")
Wes Craven (segment "Père-Lachaise")
Alfonso Cuarón (segment "Parc Monceau")
Gérard Depardieu (segment "Quartier Latin")
Christopher Doyle (segment "Porte de Choisy")
Richard LaGravenese (segment "Pigalle")
Vincenzo Natali (segment "Quartier de la Madeleine")
Alexander Payne (segment "14th arrondissement")
Bruno Podalydès (segment "Montmartre")
Walter Salles (segment "Loin du 16ème")
Oliver Schmitz (segment "Place des Fêtes")
Nobuhiro Suwa (segment "Place des Victoires")
Daniela Thomas (segment "Loin du 16ème")
Tom Tykwer (segment "Faubourg Saint-Denis")
Gus Van Sant (segment "Le Marais")
cast: Florence Muller, Hervé Pierre, Bruno Podalydès, Leïla Bekhti, Julien Beramis, Cyril Descours, Thomas Dumerchez, Daniely Francisque, Audrey Fricot, Salah Teskouk,
Christian Bramsen, Marianne Faithfull, Elias McConnell, Gaspard Ulliel, Julie Bataille, Steve Buscemi, Gulliver Hecq, Axel Kiener, Frankie Pain, Marina Moncade, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Aurélien Blain-King, Xing Xing Cheng, Hélène Patarot, Barbet Schroeder, Li Xin, Javier Cámara, Sergio Castellitto, Emilie Ohana, Miranda Richardson, Leonor Watling, Juliette Binoche, Martin Combes, Willem Dafoe, Hippolyte Girardot, Roxane Pelicier, Dylan Gomong, Emmanuel Layotte, Madeleine Malroux, Simone Malroux, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Patey, Paul Putner, Sara Martins, Nick Nolte, Ludivine Sagnier, Lionel Dray, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Joana Preiss, Seydou Boro, Aïssa Maïga, Fanny Ardant, Bob Hoskins, Olga Kurylenko, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Alexander Payne, Rufus Sewell, Melchior Beslon, Natalie Portman, Gérard Depardieu, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Margo Martindale
screeplay:
Tristan Carné (idea)
Emmanuel Benbihy (feature film concept and transitions)
Bruno Podalydès (segment "Montmartre")
Paul Mayeda Berges (segment "Quais de Seine") &
Gurinder Chadha (segment "Quais de Seine")
Gus Van Sant (segment "Le Marais")
Ethan Coen (segment "Tuileries") &
Joel Coen (segment "Tuileries")
Walter Salles (segment "Loin du 16ème") &
Daniela Thomas (segment "Loin du 16ème")
Christopher Doyle (segment "Porte de Choisy") &
Gabrielle Keng (segment "Porte de Choisy") &
Kathy Li (segment "Porte de Choisy")
Isabel Coixet (segment "Bastille")
Nobuhiro Suwa (segment "Place des Victoires")
Sylvain Chomet (segment "Tour Eiffel")
Alfonso Cuarón (segment "Parc Monceau")
Olivier Assayas (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
Oliver Schmitz (segment "Place des Fêtes")
Richard LaGravenese (segment "Pigalle")
Vincenzo Natali (segment "Quartier de la Madeleine")
Wes Craven (segment "Père-Lachaise")
Tom Tykwer (segment "Faubourg Saint-Denis")
Gena Rowlands (segment "Quartier Latin")
Nadine Eïd (segment "14th arrondissement") &
Alexander Payne (segment "14th arrondissement")

Stories of love from the city of love.

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What was this all about? Was it truly some short films under one title? I kept waiting for something to tie them together. Something more than the end credits rolling and the various actors meeting.

Some of the shorts were quite interesting, though none of them really seemed to tell a story by themselves.

I liked moments of this, but thought that I should have liked more of it in general.