Paris Je T'aime (2007)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

One of my all time favorites.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This movie is 18 short pieces on love in Paris, each with its own director and cast. It is, predictably, a mixed bag, with 7 or 8 good pieces amidst others that range from drab to awful.Most of these little films are fairly low-key. One surprisingly affecting section is mainly just a long commute. There is a stylish but simple portrayal of a relationship between an actress and a blind guy. There is a meditation on how illness can affect love and a long monologue with a punchline.A few pieces are more out there, notably a wonderful romance involving mimes and an annoyingly absurd bit involving vampires. There is also a truly inane film that takes place in a Parisian version of Chinatown. The director was actually a cinematographer who has directed very little, and one suspects he got this gig because he was friends with someone rather than because he was an equal to the Coen Brothers and Tom Twyker.Some pieces are quite good, like a terribly sad story involving a shooting victim or a wonderfully amusing one with Steve Buscemi as a tourist waiting for a train. Some are intriguing, like an American who narrates in her bad French but still becomes increasingly existentialist. Others are pointless or are basically cute little setups with some sort of punchline, like the Nick Nolte one.In my experience, these sorts of anthology rarely manage to be even 50% good, so by that basis, this is one of the better ones. But I wouldn't recommend it.

Paris, je t'aime, is an interesting melange of 18 vignettes directed by a host of different directors. Naturally, certain sequences are considerably more affecting than others. "Loin du 16ieme" is a rather profound look at the divide between rich and poor, as well as between native-born French women and the emigres imported to be their servants. "Quartier de la Madeleine" is a very powerful portrait of a drugged-out actress and her boyfriend/pusher. "Faubourg Saint-Denis" is a moving portrait of a young, frivolous actress (Natalie Portman), who plays with and then abandons a blind admirer. Many other sequences seem either incomplete ("Les Marais") or incomprehensible ("Porte de Choisy") but, on the whole, there are more good moments than bad in this film.My disagreement with all those who have commented on this movie favorably is that somehow this movie is supposed to make its viewers love and and admire Paris and perhaps long to visit the "city of lights". But the Paris shown in this film is in large measure an alcoholic, drugged-out, impoverished, and decadent society essentially living off the glories of its past. The only even remotely enthusiastic characters in the film are the Americans and Englishmen who are visiting: the French characters seem depressed, washed up, and largely incapable of action. I am sure that Paris remains an inspiring and beautiful city -- as it has been through the centuries. But one would never know it from watching this sorrowful portrait of a once glorious city on the way out. Love this Paris? Really?

A mixed bag. Too many chefs; in this case, too many filmmakers. The problem is overload, with twenty different stories by as many directors; some work and others don't.Monmartre by Bruno Podalydes was writer, director, and stars as a guy sitting in his parked car watching the women pass by and wondering why they are all taken. One of them faints on the sidewalk and he comes to her rescue. 8/10Tuileries by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Steve Buscemi as an American tourist who makes eye contact with a fighting couple at the Paris Metro train station. Very funny and a 9/10.Loin du 16e by Brazilian couple Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas. A woman sings a lullaby to her baby and then leaves it in day care and after a long commute to a wealthy employer, sings the same song to his infant. Simple and sweet and a 7/10.Bastille by Isabel Coixet, Sergio is in the process of leaving his wife for a much younger woman, Marie Christine, but when his spouse(Miranda Richardson) discloses a fatal illness, he must make a choice. Sentimental and 7/10.Tour Eiffel by Sylvain Chomet is the tale told by a small boy of how his mother and father met in prison and fell in love. I hate mimes and so it is a 2/10. Place de fetes by South African Oliver Schmitz has a Nigerian man lying on a sidewalk, bleeding badly from a stab wound. He asks a woman paramedic for a cup of coffee. A flashback reveals that he had fallen in love with her at first glance previously. 8/10.Quartier de la Madeleine by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali is a dark tale of an American tourist backpacking through France when he falls for a vampire played by the sexy Olga Kurylenko. An atmospheric horror short and an 8/10.Quartier Latin by Gena Rowlands and Gerard Depardieu with the former starring as the soon to be divorced wife of Ben Gazzara at a bar sharing one last drink before they separate. 5/10.Overall, the movie is worth watching for the better segments. Paris is an interesting setting.

One of the most inventive pieces of film-making you'll ever see. Spanning some 120 minutes of celluloid, over 18 directors and goodness knows how many actors, it shows nearly 20 vignettes of Parisian life ranging between three and twenty minutes in length. Starring such luminaries as Steve Buscemi, Bob Hoskins, Rufus Sewell, Emily Mortimer, Marianne Faithful, Elijah Wood, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Natalie Portman and the always luminous Fanny Ardant it is always interesting. The cinematography is stunning, taking in the city of light in all it's glory. Some segments work better than others. Wes Craven directs a sweet little ghost-story with none other than Rufus Sewell and Emily Mortimer, who work well together. A well directed, well acted segment involves immigrants from Lagos, another the always good Fanny Ardant and Bob Hoskins play off each other in La Pigalle, a rather risqué area of Paris. Some don't work nearly as well, Elijah Wood as a vampire in a silent segment is criminally underused while Natalie Portman does her usual over-rated over-acting in a boring little piece that I can thankfully skip next time I watch. My personal favourite (predictably) is the contribution by the Coen brothers, who employ the marvelous Steve Buscemi in 'Tuileries'. Mr Buscemi manages to make one laugh without even saying a word. Brilliant stuff! Some-one give the man an Oscar already!  "Paris J'Taime" is highly recommended for film and Paris buffs alike.