Film Festival Week 9: Paris, Je T’aime
Apologies for yet another delay. But not to worry, the Summer Film Festival is back for another round with Paris, Je T’aime.
Another fairly recent film, 2007′s Paris, Je T’aime (translated as Paris, I Love You) certainly stands apart from the others. Comprised of 18 5-minute vignettes from directors including Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen and Alfonso Cuaron, the film is a love letter to Paris, with each filmmaker contributing their take on love in the city of lights. However, a one-word directive leaves much room for interpretation, and some of the most interesting entries are often the ones with the most unique take on the subject. In a sense, this entire film is support for the Auteur theory. It’s a single film that manages to maintain an identity even though each five minutes brings a new, unique vision.
Paris, Je T’aime is available on Netflix Watch Instantly and can also be found for under $10 at various retailers.
Please join us next week when we discuss the Clint Eastwood modern classic Unforgiven.
Table of contents for 2009 Robot Panic Summer Film Festival
- Film Festival Week 1: All the President’s Men
- Film Festival Week 2: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- Film Festival Week 3: Dear Zachary
- Film Festival Week 4: Bottle Rocket
- Film Festival Week 5: Primer
- Film Festival Week 6: JCVD
- Film Festival Week 7: The Maltese Falcon
- Film Festival Week 9: Paris, Je T’aime
- Film Festival Week 10: Unforgiven
- Film Festival Week 11: Oldboy
- Film Festival Week 12: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Film Festival Week 13: Le Cercle Rouge
- Film Festival Week 14: Let the Right One In
- Film Festival Closing Ceremony
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August 7th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I found this a few months ago at Best Buy for $5. Looking forward to finally getting around to watching it.
August 8th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
This was so good! There was such a wide range of different styles and moods between all the shorts that I’ll bet anyone would find at least a few that they love. My favorite has to be the Coen brother’s one with Steve Buscemi. Steve didn’t even say anything during the short – just his facial expressions and movements were perfect for it.
Other standouts for me were the vampire one (which seemed totally random, but was great), and the one directed by Tom Tykwer with Natalie Portman in it. I’ve really discovered Tom Tykwer lately. I just watched a recent film of his called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, and it was one of the best movies I’ve seen in recent memory. Mitch, Perfume might be a great one for next summer. It was impeccably directed, very disturbing at times, beautifully acted, and if any movie could make you visualize what “smell” is, it was this.
Anyway, back to Paris, I think I’ll get some flak for it but I really liked the mime one too!
August 11th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Alright, got a moment to watch it last night and LOVED it. Seriously, movies like this make me happy. There wasn’t a single segment that I didn’t like. I agree with damo in that the Steve Buscemi bit may have been my favorite. I liked the old style feel of it, like a Chaplin short or something. And yes, the mime one was actually pretty damn funny.
I loved how different each segment was. I found myself enjoying each one for a completely different reason. I don’t know really what else to say about it other than it was completely entertaining from start to finish. Or “Fin”.