Paris Je t'Aime is an assemblage of twenty short (five minute) films by twenty different filmmakers, one each on the twenty arrondissements of Paris. The demands of telling a meaningful story in five minutes turn out to be good for film making. Would that there was as much content in your average full length film as there is in any of these five minute ones. As soon as it was over, I wanted to watch the whole thing again. The episodes I particularly remember were a funny vignette about mimes falling in love near the Eiffel Tower, a Coen Brother skit with Steve Buscemi experiencing more than he bargained for as a tourist in a Metro Station, a touching small story about a woman leaving her own child at a day care to be a nanny for a wealthy woman, and a bit about French adolescent falling for a Muslim girl. All wonderfully told. A heady mix.
- J
Image is reduced resolution version from the film's promotional material, and as such, I believe, constitutes a fair use.
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