Paris, je t'aime Review by Zara (4.5 Stars)

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Starring:
Marianne Faithfull, Elias McConnell, Gaspard Ulliel, Steve Buscemi, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Barbet Schroeder, Sergio Castellitto, Miranda Richardson, Leonor Watling, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Hippolyte Girardot, Yolande Moreau, Nick Nolte, Ludivine Sagnier, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Joana Preiss, Fanny Ardant, Bob Hoskins, Wes Craven, Elijah Wood, Emily Mortimer, Alexander Payne, Rufus Sewell, Melchior Beslon, Natalie Portman, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Margo Martindale

Directed By:
Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin

Written By:
Tristan Carné, Emmanuel Benbihy

Paris, je t'aime (2006)

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Movie Review by Zara

November 25th, 2007

This is an ensemble piece of the coolest variety. While there are a good number of actors that you're already familiar with, I prefer to see this as a melding of the directorial minds. There are so many different filmmakers with different angles on how they see Paris that the city as a whole (a place I have yet to visit) is given a glorious representation from the numerous perspectives.

I'll point out that perhaps my favorite of the lot (although it was quite hard to pick) was Vincenzo Natali's vampire tale with a wide-eyed Frodo (Elijah Wood) stumbling upon a gorgeous vampire (Olga Kurylenko, currently in the movie HITMAN) and wordlessly having a romantic exchange with her.

The other two stand-outs to me were the Coen brothers' take of the Metro and Steve Buscemi as the clueless tourist who happens upon quarreling lovers. Well, they begin quarreling once he mistakenly makes eye contact with them.

And the piece about the little boy who happens to be the son of mimes, his parents story of how they met leaving you with a smile on your face.

The movie is not without the sad moments (the young Spanish woman who leaves her own child to be the nanny for a wealthy family is something that seems universal in a world where there are too few haves and too many have-nots) and the strangely clunky ones that - while they don't sit well on their own still help to make the movie a delightful watch as a whole.

Oh... and the Gus Van Sant piece is good as well, making light of his obsession with the gay male perspective and that romance is not remanded solely for the heterosexual crowd.

For those of you who either don't speak French or those who don't speak it and also hate to read subtitles, I can imagine that firstly you suck and secondly you'll probably not like the movie.

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	Marie Dec 6, 2007 5:16 PM
Agreed Zara. I loved the Gus Van Sant film and the Coen brothers' short. I found the last film heart breaking. Especially the whole bit how she wondered what her ex would think of paris, yet they hadn't been in contact for 11 years.

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