Paris, je t'Aime

Paris, Je T'Aime (2007)
Directed by Olivier Assays, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel & Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu & Frédéric Aubertin, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Tom Tykwer & Gus Van Sant
***3/4

As you can tell from the director list, this is a collection of short films. And oh, what a collection it is! For sake of space, I can only hint at how great some of these are, like Tom Tykwer's fast-paced romance between an actress (Natalie Portman) and her blind boyfriend. Or an American tourist's (Steve Buscemi) conflicted experience in the Paris Metro. Sylvain Chomet (The Triplettes of Belleville) steps into live action - of a whimsical sort. An African man reminds his nurse that he loves her. A man decides to fall in love with his wife again. And Alexander Payne delivers what I think is a true masterpiece of short film, a narrated tale of a midwestern woman's eye-opening visit to Paris. There are some duds (notably Natali's vampire tale starring Elijah Wood and the next Bond girl!). But for the most part, Paris, Je T'Aime, je t'aime.

Comments

[Scott]

I didn't know that that girl was going to be the new Bond girl. That vampire short was odd but somewhat enjoyable for me. I enjoyed the film as a whole but I don't think that this segment fit into the whole extremely well. I just happened across this movie during one of my few trips to Blockbuster per year. I Netflixed it the next day and ended up loving it.

Scott