| | |  | SWITZERLAND | Home » » Paris, Je T'Aime (Two-Disc Limited Collector's Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | Fall in love with the most romantic city in the world…Paris, the City of Light. This critically acclaimed, box-office smash combines visions from the world’s top directors -- the Coen brothers (Fargo), Alexander Payne (Sideways), Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) -- and some of America’s top stars -- Natalie Portman (Closer), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of the Rings), Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) -- who together create a panoramic portrait of this photogenic city. Find yourself transported and maybe transformed by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic and beautiful stories. Paris Je T'Aime goes beyond the "postcard" view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen, revealing its Parisian heart and soul and leaving you with a vision that will last long after the film is over. Includes a Bonus Disc with 18 revealing behind the scene featurettes spanning over 2 1/2 hours! | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Juliette Binoche, Leonor Watling, Ludivine Sagnier, Florence Muller, Bruno Podalydès | | Director:
| Bruno Podalydès | | Format:
| Color, Dolby, DVD, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| Arabic, English, French, Spanish | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| First Look Pictures | | Run Time:
| 120 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| November 13, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
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Je t'aime!May 31, 2007
By E. A Solinas
"ea_solinas"
Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty. And "Paris, Je T'aime" explores all the sides of the city in in eighteen brief fiolms, all set in various arrondissements of Paris, and directed by some brilliantly underrated directors. And they seem to be about love -- often it's a person, but each one is also an ode to Paris itself.
A somewhat lonely Denver mailwoman (Margo Martindale) makes her first trip to Paris, and recounts how "I fell in love with Paris, and Paris fell in love with me." A mime spreads colour and mischief on his way to love. Two strangers fall in love in a bar. A medic learns that a dying man is in love with her, and seeking her out inadvertantly led to his death at the hands of a racist gang.
A young boy leaves his misogynistic pals behind, to seek love with a young Muslim girl. A pair of British people visit the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere-Lachaise, an American actress falls for her drug dealer, and a young nanny's dismal living conditions are a stark contrast to that of the people she works for. All these -- and more -- are intertwined gently in the finale.
But two stand out especially. Tom Tykwer's includes a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) receiving a call from his American actress girlfriend (Natalie Portman). She tells him, "Our spring was wonderful but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn... our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise." In his sorrow, he thinks back to how they met, and how their relationship continued... and gets a surprise.
And Vincenzo Natali turns in a bloody, gothic love story. A young American tourist (Elijah Wood) is walking alone at night, when he steps in a pool of blood. He follows the blood to where a beautiful vampire (Olga Kurylenko) is slurping someone to death -- only to have a sudden attraction bloom up between them. When he has a fall, what will happen?
"Paris Je T'aime" has it all -- comedy, tragedy, romance, racial tension, religion, vampires, sunlit vacations, glamour and cliches. Okay, there's the occasional dud -- "Tuileries," about an American tourist by the Coen Bros., is just lame. But since all the directors are given only about five minutes, most of them are tiny, polished gems without any extraneous material.
Natali's is colourless (except for blood) and eerie, Gurinder Chadha's is shyly sweet and sunny, Richard LaGravenese's is adorable, Craven's is syrupy, and Tykwer's is a delicate web of camera tricks and blurred glimpses. Sylvain Chomet even charms us with mimes zooming through the streets. And each brings another dimension of Paris to life, from lush green parks to bars to the Eiffel Tower itself.
And the acting is just as great -- the great Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Catalina Moreno, Marianne Faithfull, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, and the adorable Melchior Beslon. Martindale deserves special praise for her sweetly realistic portrayal of an American tourist, and Portman is brilliantly vibrant as a girl who yells a lot. And Elijah Wood turns out a brilliant performance in total silence, managing to convey fear, mischief, eroticism and love.
"Paris Je T'aime" is a collection of little gems, with the occasional dull pebble thrown in -- brilliant directors, emotionally charged stories, and great acting. Enchanté!
47 of 52 found the following review helpful:
You'll Always Have Paris...May 27, 2007
By MICHAEL ACUNA
Directed by a slew of the very best directors (Alfonso Cuaron, The Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Alexander Payne to name a few), "Paris Je t'aime" is a mixed bag of short vignettes about the who's, the why's and the wherefore's of love set in the City of Love: Paris.
As is usually the case in this type of enterprise, the directors with the best scripts and the best technique and vision come off the best. The amazing thing is that producers Emmanuel Benbihy and Claudie Ossard have double-handedly breathed new life in what was thought of as a pretty much dead, at least in its commercial art form entity
...the short film, by assembling 18 films made by 21 directors.
In one of the best and most effective and affecting, "Bastille," a man (Sergio Castellito) on the verge of leaving his wife (Miranda Richardson) for his mistress learns that the wife is terminally ill and decides to stay with her. The main character's wall-to-wall stream-of-consciousness takes us through the whole story in voice-over: "by acting like I was in love, I fell in love with my wife again."
In "14ème Arrondissement," directed by Alexander Payne, a middle-aged American mail carrier from Denver, who diligently studied French as she prepared for the trip of a lifetime to Paris, walks around the city sharing her impressions in voice-over. She talks about her lonely life, the beautiful scenery, her happiness at being in Paris but her sadness at having to experience it alone. But, sitting in a Paris park one day she experiences a sudden epiphany: a life affirming and life changing epiphany that she will without a doubt take home with her to Denver.
Acting-wise, along with those mentioned above, Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands, Gaspard Ulliel, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, and Fanny Ardant...organic, deeply committed actors all make the very best of their short but sweet appearances.
Like its literary twin, the short story, the short film has very little time to make an impression and impact and though there are a couple of miss-steps presented here, "Paris Je T'aime" is as a whole a very beautiful, very cohesive, effective and blissfully thoughtful film.
61 of 69 found the following review helpful:
Je t'aime!Aug 15, 2007
By E. A Solinas
"ea_solinas"
Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty. And "Paris, Je T'aime" explores all the sides of the city in in eighteen brief fiolms, all set in various arrondissements of Paris, and directed by some brilliantly underrated directors. And they seem to be about love -- often it's a person, but each one is also an ode to Paris itself.
A somewhat lonely Denver mailwoman (Margo Martindale) makes her first trip to Paris, and recounts how "I fell in love with Paris, and Paris fell in love with me." A mime spreads colour and mischief on his way to love. Two strangers fall in love in a bar. A medic learns that a dying man is in love with her, and seeking her out inadvertantly led to his death at the hands of a racist gang.
A young boy leaves his misogynistic pals behind, to seek love with a young Muslim girl. A pair of British people visit the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere-Lachaise, an American actress falls for her drug dealer, and a young nanny's dismal living conditions are a stark contrast to that of the people she works for. All these -- and more -- are intertwined gently in the finale.
But two stand out especially. Tom Tykwer's includes a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) receiving a call from his American actress girlfriend (Natalie Portman). She tells him, "Our spring was wonderful but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn... our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise." In his sorrow, he thinks back to how they met, and how their relationship continued... and gets a surprise.
And Vincenzo Natali turns in a bloody, gothic love story. A young American tourist (Elijah Wood) is walking alone at night, when he steps in a pool of blood. He follows the blood to where a beautiful vampire (Olga Kurylenko) is slurping someone to death -- only to have a sudden attraction bloom up between them. When he has a fall, what will happen?
"Paris Je T'aime" has it all -- comedy, tragedy, romance, racial tension, religion, vampires, sunlit vacations, glamour and cliches. Okay, there's the occasional dud -- "Tuileries," about an American tourist by the Coen Bros., is just lame. But since all the directors are given only about five minutes, most of them are tiny, polished gems without any extraneous material.
Natali's is colourless (except for blood) and eerie, Gurinder Chadha's is shyly sweet and sunny, Richard LaGravenese's is adorable, Craven's is syrupy, and Tykwer's is a delicate web of camera tricks and blurred glimpses. Sylvain Chomet even charms us with mimes zooming through the streets. And each brings another dimension of Paris to life, from lush green parks to bars to the Eiffel Tower itself.
And the acting is just as great -- the great Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Catalina Moreno, Marianne Faithfull, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, and the adorable Melchior Beslon. Martindale deserves special praise for her sweetly realistic portrayal of an American tourist, and Portman is brilliantly vibrant as a girl who yells a lot. And Elijah Wood turns out a brilliant performance in total silence, managing to convey fear, mischief, eroticism and love.
"Paris Je T'aime" is a collection of little gems, with the occasional dull pebble thrown in -- brilliant directors, emotionally charged stories, and great acting. Enchanté!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Eighteen WindowsNov 03, 2007
By nepos
To be honest I came away from this movie wondering what it was that I had just seen. "Paris Je t'aime" is a string of eighteen separate vignettes, an average of 5 minutes long, peaking into the "window" of someone's life. The stories take place in different areas of Paris, with some in English and others in French, a veritable montage of acting cameos. The first thing you want to do afterwards is try to remember each story.
The vignettes range from the utterly bizarre to the absolutely heart stirring. My favorite two happen to occur near the beginning and at the end of the film. One of the earliest stories explores the oddly wonderful bloom of attraction between a wisecracking teenage guy and a devout young Muslim girl on a street. The other story at the end sort of sums it up for me. A single woman vacationer from Denver falls in love with Paris. She realizes how alone she is at that moment and as well as in her life, and yet at the same time concludes that it is going to be alright after all.
Her epiphany in the park in Paris will melt your heart.
Rather than tossing around cliches or fishing for trends and themes in this remarkable film, let me end simply by saying that this is not a movie to miss! If the stories present a Paris and it's people as bizarre, sad, unfair, romantic, and yes, sometimes ugly and violent, well.......c'est la vie.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Tantalizing Five (Twenty)-course MealJun 09, 2007
By "Rocky Raccoon"
"Hey, Doc, It's Only a Scratch!"
It's always fun to have a film experience where one can go through new territory that stimulates and surprises. 'Paris Je' T'aime' is such a movie. Made like an exceptional French five-course meal, we are given mini-films that are shot and set in different arrondissements (districts, roughly) in Paris, France. Sporting an all-star cast and directed by a who's who of directors, `Paris...' offers a tasty variety of stories and scenes. While certain courses will always be favorites, all the items are prepared to perfection. The shift in stories are not always connected, but neither is a French meal, which may shift distinctly to a cheese plate. Anyhow, the films are often funny, eye-catching, surprising, witty, and scary--each one a jaunt. Actresses, immigrant Muslims, love stories, tourists, and new-found infatuations are but a few of the ingredients used. I wanted to resist comparisons, but while not interlocking vignettes like 'Nine Lives,' the latter film has two things in common with 'Paris Je' T'aime'. One is that there are several stories; the other is that both movies often zero in on pivotal points in people's lives. In one mini-film a blind man discovers a young woman in distress, only to find she is practicing for a part she wishes to obtain in a Paris drama. We watch as we notice the time-lapsed relationship in all its distinctive detail. To just touch base, another film is a heart-warming and quirky family tale all done in mime. Marcell Marceau popped into my mind throughout their fun rendition.
One can't get enough of Paris, and I felt that 'Paris Je 'T'aime' was more than an adequate sampler of the richness of Parisian life. (With Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gerard Depardieu, Elijah Wood, and director Wes Craven, et al.)
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