Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Country: FR/LIE/SW/GER
Technical: col/bw 120m
Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant
Cast: Florence Muller, Steve Buscemi, Barbet Schroeder, Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant, Rufus Sewell, Ben Gazzara, many others
Synopsis:
Sixteen short segments by different directors showing various aspects of love, each in a specific quarter of the city.
Review:
With some offerings running as short as five minutes there is an inevitable inconsequentiality, and at times downright weirdness, that bedevils the enterprise; allowing that portmanteau films are by nature uneven affairs, this one is less even than most. However, Podalydès's opener about a lonesome yuppy singleton who rescues a fainting woman, and the remarkably similar episode that follows (Chadha) depicting the germination of an interracial romance, give touching portrayals of love's magical early moments, and Suwa's cowboy-inflected quirkiness benefits enormously from the radiant presence of Juliette Binoche as the bereaved mother; but it is Schmitz's perfectly economical story of black paramedic missing the moment with car park attendant-cum knife attack victim that must take the laurel wreath. Wooden spoons go to Tykwer's walnut-sledging cornball involving a blind man cured by love, and Van Sant's picture of homosexual courtship across the language barrier which is truncated even by this film's standards.
Country: FR/LIE/SW/GER
Technical: col/bw 120m
Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant
Cast: Florence Muller, Steve Buscemi, Barbet Schroeder, Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant, Rufus Sewell, Ben Gazzara, many others
Synopsis:
Sixteen short segments by different directors showing various aspects of love, each in a specific quarter of the city.
Review:
With some offerings running as short as five minutes there is an inevitable inconsequentiality, and at times downright weirdness, that bedevils the enterprise; allowing that portmanteau films are by nature uneven affairs, this one is less even than most. However, Podalydès's opener about a lonesome yuppy singleton who rescues a fainting woman, and the remarkably similar episode that follows (Chadha) depicting the germination of an interracial romance, give touching portrayals of love's magical early moments, and Suwa's cowboy-inflected quirkiness benefits enormously from the radiant presence of Juliette Binoche as the bereaved mother; but it is Schmitz's perfectly economical story of black paramedic missing the moment with car park attendant-cum knife attack victim that must take the laurel wreath. Wooden spoons go to Tykwer's walnut-sledging cornball involving a blind man cured by love, and Van Sant's picture of homosexual courtship across the language barrier which is truncated even by this film's standards.
Country: FR/LIE/SW/GER
Technical: col/bw 120m
Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant
Cast: Florence Muller, Steve Buscemi, Barbet Schroeder, Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant, Rufus Sewell, Ben Gazzara, many others
Synopsis:
Sixteen short segments by different directors showing various aspects of love, each in a specific quarter of the city.
Review:
With some offerings running as short as five minutes there is an inevitable inconsequentiality, and at times downright weirdness, that bedevils the enterprise; allowing that portmanteau films are by nature uneven affairs, this one is less even than most. However, Podalydès's opener about a lonesome yuppy singleton who rescues a fainting woman, and the remarkably similar episode that follows (Chadha) depicting the germination of an interracial romance, give touching portrayals of love's magical early moments, and Suwa's cowboy-inflected quirkiness benefits enormously from the radiant presence of Juliette Binoche as the bereaved mother; but it is Schmitz's perfectly economical story of black paramedic missing the moment with car park attendant-cum knife attack victim that must take the laurel wreath. Wooden spoons go to Tykwer's walnut-sledging cornball involving a blind man cured by love, and Van Sant's picture of homosexual courtship across the language barrier which is truncated even by this film's standards.