Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Directors:

Olivier Assayas
Frédéric Auburtin

Drehbuchautoren:

Tristan Carné (idea)
Emmanuel Benbihy (feature film concept and transitions)

Premierendatum:

21. Juni 2006 (France)

Genre:

Romanze

Werbezeile:

Stories of Love. From the City of Love.

Plot:

Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened.

Plot Keywords:

Tourist | Multiple Storylines | City Name In Title | Vampire | Actress

Filmpreise:

1 win & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

The bizarre and beautiful language of love...

Besetzung

Florence Muller	...	Young Woman (segment "Montmartre")
Hervé Pierre	...	Doctor (segment "Montmartre")
Bruno Podalydès	...	Driver (segment 'Montmartre')
Leïla Bekhti	...	Zarka (segment 'Quais de Seine')
Julien Beramis	...	Arnaud (segment "Quais de Seine")
Cyril Descours	...	François (segment 'Quais de Seine')
Thomas Dumerchez	...	Manu (segment "Quais de Seine")
Daniely Francisque	...	Black Girl #1 (segment "Quais de Seine")
Audrey Fricot	...	Black Girl #2 (segment "Quais de Seine")
Salah Teskouk	...	Zarka's Grandfather (segment "Quais de Seine")
Christian Bramsen	...	Printer (segment "Le Marais")
Marianne Faithfull	...	Marianne (segment 'Le Marais')
Elias McConnell	...	Elie (segment 'Le Marais')
Gaspard Ulliel	...	Gaspard (segment 'Le Marais')
Julie Bataille	...	Julie (segment 'Tuileries')

Alternativ:

Paris, I Love You (Hong Kong: English title)
Paris, je t'aime (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and brief drug use.

Länge:

120 Min | Canada:116 Min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Produktionsland:

France | Liechtenstein | Switzerland

Sprache:

Englisch | Französisch | Spanisch | Arabisch | Mandarin

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss | Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Germany:6 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Ireland:15A | Malaysia:U | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Brazil:16 | Sweden:11 | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | USA:R | Finland:K-11 | Australia:MA | South Korea:15 | UK:15 | Hong Kong:IIA

Drehorte:

Grave of Oscar Wilde, Père Lachaise - 65 Boulevard de Ménilmontant, Paris 20, Paris, France

Firma:

Victoires International

Dies und das:

The original intention of the film was to represent each of the 20 arrondissements of Paris but this idea was abandoned together with filmed segments by directors Christoffer Boe and Raphaël Nadjari.

Dialogzitate:

Bob Leander: Can't we walk together?
Fanny Forestier: I'm so ashamed.
Bob Leander: Why? You did it out of love, I assume.
Fanny Forestier: And what do you do, out of love?
Bob Leander: I ache... for who we were.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Dernier trappeur, Le (2004)

Soundtrack:

We're All in the Dance

The bizarre and beautiful language of love...

Although I live in Minnesota, I have been studying in France lately and came across this bizarre gem of a film.

This movie was amazing, to say the least. A creative and unique film, the different directors each lent something different to their interpretation of love in the City of Light. The first instinct is to attempt to fit each one of these little stories into an overall storyline, much as can be done with 2003's Love Actually. This attempt, however, renders the magic of each individual segment obsolete. When taken at face value, with each of the short segments taken as its own individual film, the love stories together tell a beautiful message.

The film is strikingly bizarre at times -- often to the point of confusion -- and each individual segment can be hard to follow. Still, to a watcher who pays close attention to each of the segments, the short plot lines become clear after a short time. The confusion is almost intriguing; it keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for what will come next. It leaves the viewer wondering "Did that really just happen?" yet also leaves them satisfied that it did, indeed, occur. It's the kind of movie where the viewer, upon leaving the theater, can't actually decide whether they loved it or they hated it. The initial reaction is to go and watch it again and again, just to see these individual lives blend together into a cinematic masterpiece.

The interesting decision to make the movie multilingual adds something to the spectrum of people who can relate. It adds to the reality of the film -- here, the American tourists speak English, the Parisians French, and so on. The number of people that the film encompasses leads to an understanding of the international language of love.

From sickness to the supernatural, the love of parents to the love of husbands, this film covers all the bases of romantic storytelling. In its beautiful and quirky way, each unique event somehow falls into place to tell a story: that of all types, sizes, nationalities, and shapes of love.