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Paris Je T'aime (2006)

Paris Je T'aime (2006), directed by Alexander Payne, starring Steve Buscemi and Natalie Portman.

16 06/21/2006 BR Drama and Romance 2h

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Fall in love with Paris 18 times.

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Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

  • Bruno DelbonnelCinematography
  • Christophe PaturangeCinematography
  • David QuesemandCinematography
  • Denis LenoirCinematography

About the film

Paris, je t'aime (French pronunciation: [paʁi ʒə tɛm]; lit. 'Paris, I Love You') is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements (districts). The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Gérard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Nobuhiro Suwa, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Yolande Moreau and Gus Van Sant. It was the first film in the Cities of Love franchise.

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Paris, je t'aime (French pronunciation: [paʁi ʒə tɛm]; lit. 'Paris, I Love You') is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements (districts). The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Gérard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Nobuhiro Suwa, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Yolande Moreau and Gus Van Sant. It was the first film in the Cities of Love franchise.

Production

Film director Julio Medem was attached to the project for a long time. He was supposed to direct one of the segments starring Javier Bardem and Maria Valverde, but this finally fell through because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of Caótica Ana (2007).

Paris, je t'aime is the first feature film to be fully scanned in 6K and mastered in 4K in Europe (as opposed to the normal 2K). Encoding the image took about 24 hours per reel (at Laboratoires Éclair).

Both Claudie Ossard and Emmanuel Benbihy served as producers on the project, while Gilles Caussade acted as an executive producer. As the film is a collection of shorter segments, there were also producers attached to each episode of the project.

Arrondissements

Initially, 20 short films representing the 20 arrondissements of Paris were planned, but two of them (the 15th arrondissement, directed by Christoffer Boe, and the 11th arrondissement, by Raphaël Nadjari) were not included in the final film because they could not be properly integrated into it. Each arrondissement is followed by a few images of Paris; these transition sequences were written by Emmanuel Benbihy and directed by Benbihy with Frédéric Auburtin. Including Benbihy, there were 22 directors involved in the finished film.

Release

The film premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May, opening the Un Certain Regard selection. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September and its US premiere in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 9 April 2007. Paris, je t'aime was released theatrically in France on 21 June 2006 by La Fabrique de Films, in Switzerland on 13 September 2006 by Ascot Elite Entertainment Group and in Germany on 25 January 2007 by Senator Film. First Look Pictures acquired the North American rights in September 2006, and the film opened in New York City on 4 May 2007, before expanding to other American cities including Los Angeles on 18 May.

Reception

Paris, je t'aime received generally positive reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 112 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Paris Je T'aime is uneven, but there are more than enough delightful moments in this omnibus tribute to the City of Light to tip the scale in its favor." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Influence

Following the success of Paris, je t'aime, a similarly structured film, New York, I Love You, focusing on life in that city, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release in 2009. The third and fourth entries in the series, Tbilisi, I Love You and Rio, I Love You, were released in 2014. Berlin, I Love You followed in 2019.

The film was the first part of the film almanac series "...I love you". The action of each takes place in one of the cities of the globe:

«New York, I Love You» (2009) — New York, United States

«Moscow, I love you!» (2010) — Moscow, Russia

«Revolution, I love you» (2010) — Mexico, takes place after the Mexican Revolution in 1910.

«Shanghai, I Love You» (2011) — Shanghai, China

«Lovers in Kyiv» (2011) — Kyiv, Ukraine

«Bishkek, I Love You» (2011) — Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

«Sapsan, I Love You» (2012) — Train «Sapsan» between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia

«7 Days in Havana» (2012) — Havana, Cuba

«My heart is Astana» (2012) — Astana, Kazakhstan

«Rio, I Love You» (2013) — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

«Made in Cleveland» (2013) — Cleveland, United States

«Jerusalem, I Love You» (2014) — Jerusalem, Israel

«Tbilisi, I Love You» (2014) — Tbilisi, Georgia

«Baku, I Love You» (2015) — Baku, Azerbaijan

«St. Petersburg. Only for Love» (2016) — Saint Petersburg, Russia

«Ulan-Ude, I Love You» (2018) — Ulan-Ude, Russia

«Berlin, I Love You» (2019) — Berlin, Germany

«Almaty, I Love You!» (2023) — Almaty, Kazakhstan

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Paris, je t'aime at IMDb

Paris, je t'aime at Box Office Mojo

Paris, je t'aime at Metacritic

Paris, je t'aime at Rotten Tomatoes

Press kit (in French)

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What is Paris Je T'aime about?

Paris Je T'aime: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his …

Who directed Paris Je T'aime?

Paris Je T'aime was directed by Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuarón, Bruno Podalydès, Christopher Doyle, Daniela Thomas, Ethan Coen, Frédéric Auburtin, Gérard Depardieu, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Isabel Coixet, Joel Coen, Oliver Schmitz, Olivier Assayas, Richard LaGravenese, Sylvain Chomet, Tom Tykwer, Vincenzo Natali, Walter Salles, Wes Craven and Nobuhiro Suwa in 2006.

Who stars in Paris Je T'aime?

The cast of Paris Je T'aime includes Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Axel Kiener.

How long is Paris Je T'aime?

Paris Je T'aime runs for 120 minutes, or 2h00.

How much did Paris Je T'aime cost and how much did it make?

Paris Je T'aime had a budget of US$ 13,000,000 and took US$ 17,489,601 at the box office — 1.3 times its cost.

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