Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You) | 
| Directors: Alexander Payne, Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant, Tom Tykwer, Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Studio: First Look Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 2513
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FLPD11629D
UPC: 687797116291
EAN: 0687797116291
ASIN: B000UVV26A
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 13, 2007
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Product Description
THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHODS OF PARIS, LOVE IS VEILED, REVEALED, SUCKED DRY, REINVENTED AND AWAKENED.
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Even with the impressive talent involved, Paris, je t'aime could've ended up like a fallen souffle. Though all 18 films aren't equally successful, they hit the mark more often than not. Romantics anticipating happy love stories set amongst the City of Lights may be disappointed to find that many are quite sad and that some parts of Paris are less inviting than others (each takes place in a different district). Further, the shorts aren't all en Francais, since the actors and directors hail from around the world, but their outsider perspectives lend the project depth. The strongest entries are provided by Gurinder Chadha (Quais De Seine), Gus Van Sant (Le Marais), Oliver Schmitz (Place des Fetes), and Alexander Payne (14eme Arrondissement), but all find interesting ways to explore cultural misunderstandings. In Joel and Ethan Coen's tragic-comic Tuileries, tourist Steve Buscemi angers a couple simply by making eye contact. Like Miranda Richardson in Isabelle Coixet's heartbreaking Bastille, he does all his acting with his expressive face. And while Maggie Gyllenhaal speaks the language adroitly in Olivier Assayas's intriguing Quartier des Enfants Rouges, Nick Nolte (purposefully) mangles it in Alfonso Cuaron's surprisingly weak Parc Monceau. The anthology ends with Payne's audio-postcard, in which Margo Martindale's postal carrier narrates her vacation in awkward, but endearing French. Instead of another person, she falls in love with Paris, simply for allowing her to be herself. It's the perfect finish to a poignant repast, like strawberries dipped in chocolate--sweet, but not cloyingly so. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Paris Je t'aime June 5, 2009
Marc G. Derisse
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The most stupid movie I have ever seen. I don't what the title has to do with it, but it was a very ill conceived, stupid movie
 Great watch May 31, 2009
Heywood Jablowme (NYC)
If you love Paris and love quirky films this is for you. Not a blockbuster but a nice pleasant series of unrelated vignettes with Paris as the common theme. This is one you can start watching now go on to something else and come back to it hours days or week's later. I'm usually not a fan of short stories as I like to see things actually develop but would still recommend this to anyone who enjoys variety of a theme.
Very Weiiiiird! May 14, 2009
Khaled Altaher (Riyadh, NA Saudi Arabia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed with this movie. And what disappointed me more, is that many famous actors and actresses acted in it!
It's about a group of love stories taking place in Paris. However, they are mostly weird love stories. I never saw two vampies fall in love before (except interview with the vampire), however in this movie it seems Paris had an effect on two vampires in that sense.
It has too many short stories in this film that get you out of focus. You lose track and you do not know where the hech is this movie heading!
This movie has a similar idea to the film "Love Actually", but you just can't compare its quality to it!
I was disappointed with this film, and I do not think this represents French movies well
 wildly uneven but can't beat the location May 11, 2009
Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA)
If you just can't find the time to take that trip to France this year, you at least have "Paris, Je T'Aime" to get you there and back in just a few short hours. A cinematic love-letter to the City of Enchantment, "Paris, Je T'Amie" is a compilation of eighteen very short films (most under six minutes in length), each crafted around the theme of love (this is France, after all!) and each set in its own unique quarter of the city. Each piece has also been helmed by a different director, some of them quite well-known even to American audiences: Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alexander Payne, and Alfonso Cuaron, among others. Of the actors, the most readily recognizable are Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Willem Dafoe, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Rufus Sewell, Natalie Portman, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands and Gerard Depardieu, who not only appears in the second-to-the-last segment but helped to direct it as well.
As with most such works, "Paris, Je T'Aime" turns out to be something of a hit-and-miss proposition overall, with the episodes ranging in quality from the clever and touching to the precious and banal. The inherent weakness in this approach to storytelling is that the extreme brevity of the tales doesn't allow us to develop much of a rooting interest in either the characters or the various dilemmas they are facing before we are hustled off to another, equally underdeveloped, batch. Still, given its obvious limitations, the movie is moderately entertaining on a superficial level and it does give us a chance to spend a couple of hours touring the streets and neighborhoods of one of the world`s most magical cities, all for the unbelievably low price of a movie ticket or rental fee - though it must be stated right up front that an overall graininess in the picture fails to do justice to the stunning locales.
And, frankly, where else are you going to see Frodo (Elijah Wood) having his throat ripped open by a sexy vampire?
Paris Je t'Aime April 30, 2009
Alma Cabredo
love storys by the pound never a clear ending for any but its more to instill loves many forms and situations
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