Paris, je t'aime

This collection of short films is a love letter to one of the world's most transcendent cities, in which celebrated directors - including the Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, Wes Craven, Isabel Coixet, Walter Salles, Alexander Payne and Olivier Assayas - portray Paris in a way never before imagined. With each director portraying an unusual encounter in one of the city's neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyond the 'postcard' view of Paris to reveal facets of the city rarely seen on the big screen. Since its premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard last year, the film has played at several international festivals including Toronto, Moscow and Copenhagen.

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. These are but a few of the witty and serendipitous narratives that make up PARIS, JE T'AIME.


An outstanding cast of actors, including Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant, Elijah Wood, Nick Nolte, Bob Hoskins, Juliette Binoche, Emily Mortimer, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Rufus Sewell, Barbet Schroeder, Ludivine Sagnier, Gena Rowlands, Miranda Richardson and Steve Buscemi, grace these vignettes with their larger-than-life personas.



Participating directors are as follows: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin & Gérard Depardieu, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel & Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Tom Tykwer and Gus Van Sant. PARIS, JE T'AIME was produced by Claudie Ossard and Emmanuel Benbihy, co-produced by Burkhard Von Schenk and is based on an original idea by Tristan Carné. Executive producers are Chris Bolzli and Gilles Caussade.

“PARIS, JE T’AIME builds into something quite wonderful.” (Ann Hornaday, Washington Post)

“The result is that after two hours one gets the sense of having seen a panorama of human experience, of having witnessed a moment of time in all its true fullness.” (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle)

“Anthology films usually work better in theory than execution, but this feature parade of shorts is a blithe, worldly, and enchanting exception.” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly)

“Payne's film alone would be worth the price of admission.” (Carina Chocano, L.A. Times)