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Paris, je t’aime

By: Material type: FilmSubtitle language: English Publication details: 2006Description: DVDGenre/Form: Online resources: Summary: PARIS JE T'AIME is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers bring their own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres, encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in the neighbourhoods of Paris. Each director was given five minutes of freedom, and a single narrative was weaved together out of those 18 moments. Racial tensions stand next to paranoid visions of the city seen from the perspective of an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer's bourgeois environs. An American starlet finds escape as she is shooting a movie. A man is torn between his wife and his lover. A young man working in a print shop sees and desires another young man. A father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. A couple tries to add spice to their sex life. Considering the common theme of Paris and love, the fusion between the films and the transitions, the fast pace of a fluid and complete storytelling, PARIS JE T'AIME is not just another "anthology" picture. It is a unique collective feature film that will constitute a two-hour cinematographic spectacle whose original structure will make for a dramatically different experience for its global audience.
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PARIS JE T'AIME is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers bring their own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres, encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in the neighbourhoods of Paris. Each director was given five minutes of freedom, and a single narrative was weaved together out of those 18 moments. Racial tensions stand next to paranoid visions of the city seen from the perspective of an American tourist. A young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer's bourgeois environs. An American starlet finds escape as she is shooting a movie. A man is torn between his wife and his lover. A young man working in a print shop sees and desires another young man. A father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. A couple tries to add spice to their sex life. Considering the common theme of Paris and love, the fusion between the films and the transitions, the fast pace of a fluid and complete storytelling, PARIS JE T'AIME is not just another "anthology" picture. It is a unique collective feature film that will constitute a two-hour cinematographic spectacle whose original structure will make for a dramatically different experience for its global audience.

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