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Paris, je t'aime is a collection of twenty short films that show
love throughout the neighborhoods of Paris. Together, the shorts make one film
that demonstrates a wide variety of genres, film making styles and the different
forms that love takes.
The stories include the encounters between two teenagers of
different races but similar minds, a fiance and the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a
stabbed, dying man and a paramedic, and a vampire and a lost tourist. A few of
the others follow the stories of a husband falling in love for the second time
with his dying wife, an odd, confused tourist in the subway station, a mother
coping with the recent death of her young son, and two mimes. The diverse films
exhibit styles that range from sweet to tragic, narrated to plain dialog, campy
to simple. Big names include Steve Buscemi, Miranda Richardson, Juliette
Bionoche, William Dafoe, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Emily
Mortimer, Rufus Sewell, Natalie Portman and Gena Rowlands. A few of the most
famous directors are the Coen brothers, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuaron, and Gerard
Depardieu.
Because of the variety, it would be nearly impossible for anyone
person to like every single short. But the pieces fit together nicely, balancing
moods, and certain characteristics from different stories can be recognized as
showing up in some of the other films. It is an artistic montage that is viewed
at once as a show of separate works and as one whole, a highlight on the city of
love, and it is easy to agree, "Paris, ja t'aime."
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