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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Paris, je t'aime (English: Paris, I love you) (2006) Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant Watched: 2005 & 8/1/18 Rating: 7/10 Watch Eighteen Love stories: La Ville Lumière! Bookended by nifty live mosaic, Stunning city shots- patent in segues. Directors from All over The world, With A cast Both practiced And new talent. Best bits by Chomet, Coixet, Cuarón, Twyker, Schmitz. Mime, "terminal", mother, actress, nurse love, Respectively. These were grand. The rest? Meh. Tetractys poems stem from the mathematician Euclid, who considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have a mystical significance because of its sum of 10. He named it a Tetractys. Thus, these poems follow a 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllable format, with additional verses written in an inverted syllable count. #Tetractys #QuadrupleTetractys #PoemReview #Anthology #RomanticComedy

I felt this film catered very much to an American market, but within that, it took risks and didn't take itself too seriously. It was refreshing to see a different side of Paris with Steve Buscemi getting mugged. I, too, have been to one of those Metro stations where things can get quite seedy and you find yourself alone. The story about the Spanish girl forced to leave her baby to be an au pair to a rich woman across town was also quite unusual and illuminating. The mime sequence was silly, but it was funny. The vampire sequence was just silly. Natalie Portman's episode as the American dating a blind man was quite moving. Maggie Gyllenhaal's segment as a drug addicted actor was also moving and an interesting take on an actor abroad. I found the final segment of the American tourist (Margo Martindale) unexpectedly moving. She is enthralled by all the tourist sights, with a voice-over of her giving a talk about it to her French class back home. Here was someone with a genuine affection for Paris and for France. Sure it was kitsch and her French was crude, but it really rang true, and it went beautifully with the film's theme of a love story -- for her, love was having a picnic in the park with a sandwich in Paris. And it was not a bad thing to do at all.

Paris, je t'aime, is an interesting melange of 18 vignettes directed by a host of different directors. Naturally, certain sequences are considerably more affecting than others. "Loin du 16ieme" is a rather profound look at the divide between rich and poor, as well as between native-born French women and the emigres imported to be their servants. "Quartier de la Madeleine" is a very powerful portrait of a drugged-out actress and her boyfriend/pusher. "Faubourg Saint-Denis" is a moving portrait of a young, frivolous actress (Natalie Portman), who plays with and then abandons a blind admirer. Many other sequences seem either incomplete ("Les Marais") or incomprehensible ("Porte de Choisy") but, on the whole, there are more good moments than bad in this film.My disagreement with all those who have commented on this movie favorably is that somehow this movie is supposed to make its viewers love and and admire Paris and perhaps long to visit the "city of lights". But the Paris shown in this film is in large measure an alcoholic, drugged-out, impoverished, and decadent society essentially living off the glories of its past. The only even remotely enthusiastic characters in the film are the Americans and Englishmen who are visiting: the French characters seem depressed, washed up, and largely incapable of action. I am sure that Paris remains an inspiring and beautiful city -- as it has been through the centuries. But one would never know it from watching this sorrowful portrait of a once glorious city on the way out. Love this Paris? Really?

Paris, JE T'AIME?! In what language? French people said JE T'AIME with passion and fear, their tears are miserable because are tears of pleasure and pain and hope ... I think so.It is as if Americans come here in Romania and lead us ... oh, sorry, they are already here and they lead.But anyway, Americas sell "I love you"s, make "I love you"s, they produce it in cinema rooms to saturate the public starvation.JE T'AIME is a he, a she. JE T'AIME is us and we are not cannibals, but I love you is it! This is it, this movie ... like a big donation (in both directions).They compared Paris and "Armageddon". Like you can compare the life of a man with money he made, or the life of a child with any thing else on earth.Cheap sell, this is this ... a cheap sell, well, or a "big donation".Now, I do not know if America wants to afflict the French film, or Europe has enough of its own misery and assume that neighbor's bed is cleaner and more relaxing.Howsoever, this "intruders" were like a bunch of innocent ... did not know what hit them. ... my perception about this film and I'm really sorry for that. This is not a french movie, this is a sick french movie.I'm sorry for that comment too, but they make me. THEY, the ITs! PS: Excuse my English, I are Romanian and also a happy one