Paris Je T'aime

2007 "Stories of Love From the City of Love"
7.2| 2h0m| R| en
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Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

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Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
SnoopyStyle There are eighteen shorts connected by visuals of the city. It comes off as a rambling series of stories. It's more connected by feel more than by story. It's very much a hit and miss concept. It doesn't go completely miss but it rarely hits big. The best is the Coens with Steve Buscemi getting beaten up. It's funny and contained. There are other interesting bits like the mimes. One does get a sense of a nice multicultural city and love is often the subject matter. I certainly would like every short to stand on its own and be award-winning in its own right. It's not and I start to get tired after awhile. It feels a bit repetitive to start anew every five or six minutes. The concept has a problem with flow and maintaining intensity.
enochpsnow Paris, je t'aime, is an interesting melange of 18 vignettes directed by a host of different directors. Naturally, certain sequences are considerably more affecting than others. "Loin du 16ieme" is a rather profound look at the divide between rich and poor, as well as between native-born French women and the emigres imported to be their servants. "Quartier de la Madeleine" is a very powerful portrait of a drugged-out actress and her boyfriend/pusher. "Faubourg Saint-Denis" is a moving portrait of a young, frivolous actress (Natalie Portman), who plays with and then abandons a blind admirer. Many other sequences seem either incomplete ("Les Marais") or incomprehensible ("Porte de Choisy") but, on the whole, there are more good moments than bad in this film.My disagreement with all those who have commented on this movie favorably is that somehow this movie is supposed to make its viewers love and and admire Paris and perhaps long to visit the "city of lights". But the Paris shown in this film is in large measure an alcoholic, drugged-out, impoverished, and decadent society essentially living off the glories of its past. The only even remotely enthusiastic characters in the film are the Americans and Englishmen who are visiting: the French characters seem depressed, washed up, and largely incapable of action. I am sure that Paris remains an inspiring and beautiful city -- as it has been through the centuries. But one would never know it from watching this sorrowful portrait of a once glorious city on the way out. Love this Paris? Really?
Mustang92 OK, well I didn't actually vomit, but wanted to. A couple months ago, I thought I saw the worst movie in years. Now it's a toss up between that one and "Paris Je T'aime."With all the talented directors each creating a 5-6 minute story -- that is, a 5-6 minute short film that will be unrelated to all the others, except in locale, one would THINK that some of these would be good, if not most of them. And if you thought this, you'd be wrong. At least 15 of these 18 short films are the most horrible pieces of trash I've seen in years. My God, one can attend any film festival anywhere in this country, and it would be hard pressed to see a short film at a festival that would be as bad as what's in "Paris Je T'aime," I kid you not.The producers of this trash should have exercised *some* control over approving what the directors were doing. It appears as though they gave the directors 'x' amount of money and said "go do what you want." In fact, if one didn't know any of these directors' prior movies and saw their work here, you'd think these filmmakers were untalented hacks that shouldn't be given money for film. Their work here is that BAD. And NONE of them, save maybe 1 or 2, could actually tell a frickin' story in the time alloted. Amazing this turd of a film was given money and produced.And the title for this heap of toilet water? It comes from the very last short film of the bunch, about a woman who falls in love with Paris the city -- which has NOTHING to do with any of the other pieces, nor is there any "through line" of love toward Paris in the entire movie. A ludicrous and stupid title.
Cristian Pataki Paris, JE T'AIME?! In what language? French people said JE T'AIME with passion and fear, their tears are miserable because are tears of pleasure and pain and hope ... I think so.It is as if Americans come here in Romania and lead us ... oh, sorry, they are already here and they lead.But anyway, Americas sell "I love you"s, make "I love you"s, they produce it in cinema rooms to saturate the public starvation.JE T'AIME is a he, a she. JE T'AIME is us and we are not cannibals, but I love you is it! This is it, this movie ... like a big donation (in both directions).They compared Paris and "Armageddon". Like you can compare the life of a man with money he made, or the life of a child with any thing else on earth.Cheap sell, this is this ... a cheap sell, well, or a "big donation".Now, I do not know if America wants to afflict the French film, or Europe has enough of its own misery and assume that neighbor's bed is cleaner and more relaxing.Howsoever, this "intruders" were like a bunch of innocent ... did not know what hit them. ... my perception about this film and I'm really sorry for that. This is not a french movie, this is a sick french movie.I'm sorry for that comment too, but they make me. THEY, the ITs! PS: Excuse my English, I are Romanian and also a happy one