New York, I love you

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Movie
German title New York, I love you
Original title New York, I love you
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
production Emmanuel Benbihy
Marina Grasic
chronology

←  Predecessor
Paris, je t'aime

Successor  →
Tbilisi, I Love You

New York, I Love You is an episodic film from the year 2009 and the continuation of Paris, je t'aime .

action

Pickpocket Ben bumped into a man in Chinatown and stole his wallet in the process. He takes the money out of the wallet and throws it in a mailbox. Shortly afterwards he meets young Molly. He follows her into a bar, steals her mobile phone and starts talking to her under the pretext that he found her phone in the toilet and wants to give it back to her. Molly then invites Ben for a drink. The flirtation is suddenly interrupted by Garry, Molly's friend. It turns out that Garry also has the dexterity of a pickpocket, and he takes the money from Ben that he has just stolen from an unknown man. The unknown man is Garry.

At the Diamond Exchange in the Diamond District on 47th Street, the Jew Rifka Malone meets the Indian Mansuhkhbai. First, both of them haggle over the best price for them. Later on, their conversation becomes much more private. Mansuhkhbai relates that his wife has returned to India , shaved off the hair of her head and led a celibate life. Rifka also shaved off the hair of her head for religious reasons for the upcoming wedding and is now wearing a wig . Mansuhkhbai notes that most of the hair for human hair wigs comes from India and Rifka may be wearing his wife's hair.

The freelance musician David Cooler, who lives in the Upper West Side , receives feedback from his music producer that he does not like several of the songs on the new album and does not need to be revised. Camille advises David to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Guilt and Atonement by telephone . She places the work in front of David's apartment door and continues to contact him by phone. One day she stands at his door and the two get to know each other personally.

One night in SoHo , a writer speaks to a woman on the street. His intense flirtation, during which he makes no secret of his intentions, is abruptly interrupted by the woman revealing herself as a prostitute and handing him a business card.

The pharmacist Mr. Riccoli shows in his pharmacy a student a photo of his daughter and asks him if he as an accompaniment to his prom of high school wants to take. The student is taken with the girl's pretty appearance and agrees. On the night of the prom, he picks her up from her father's house and is surprised to find that she is in a wheelchair . After attending the ball together, they make their way home through Central Park . There the two get closer, spend the night in the park and only return the following morning. Mr. Riccoli, who receives them at the door, does not comment on the delay. Rather, the student is surprised that his companion gets out of the wheelchair and runs up the stairs to the apartment door. Her father explains that his daughter is an actress, practices for a role and therefore spends several hours a day in a wheelchair.

In Greenwich Village Gus waiting in a bar on his appointment. Lydia takes the train to her appointment, but is late. Gus is leaving the pub and is about to go home when he meets Lydia in front of the pub. They go together.

Former singer Isabelle visits a hotel on the Upper East Side . She is not satisfied with the room assigned to her and is taken to another room one floor up by the clerk Jacob, the son of the owner Bellhop. She wants flowers that Jacob brings her and places a farewell letter on her pillow. When Jacob knocks on her room door again, informs her that his father is a big fan of her singing and gives her a bottle of champagne from him, she asks Jacob in to keep her company and drink with her. In a vision she sees Jacob falling out of the window that she opened to jump into the depths for her part.

In Central Park , Teya spends some time with her father Dante, a ballet dancer . After a while, the two meet Teya's mother Maggie, who goes away with her daughter and her new partner and leaves Dante alone in the park.

In Chinatown , an elderly painter meets a young Chinese saleswoman. Your face inspires him and he can't get it out of his head. One day he asks the Chinese woman whether he can paint her. She cannot make up her mind immediately and only visits the painter after a few days. She learns from a man who is busy cleaning out the painter's apartment that the painter has died. She finds a sketch of her face and takes it with her to replace the sketch's empty eyes with photographs of her eyes.

The senior couple Abe and Mitzie are spending their 63rd wedding anniversary in Coney Island .

background

The film was shot in New York . Filming began on March 10, 2008 and ended on April 30, 2008. During this period of 52 days, the film was shot on 36 days. The budget of the film is on 14.7 million US dollar appreciated.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008. This was followed by other screenings at various film festivals , including on February 5, 2009 at the European Film Market and on May 18, 2009 at the Cannes International Film Festival . From October 16, 2009 the film was shown in the USA. It was shown for the first time in Switzerland on December 9, 2009. It was released in cinemas in Germany on January 28, 2010. The cinema release in Austria followed on April 9, 2010. On July 1, 2010, the film was released in Germany by Concorde Video on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-12 rating .

On the opening weekend, the film grossed over $ 380,000 in the US. Total US revenue through the end of 2009 was over $ 1.5 million.

The guidelines for the directors of the individual episodes stipulated that filming for each episode had to be completed within 24 hours, one week could be used for editing and one episode should represent the character of a district of New York.

Natalie Portman made her debut as a director while filming the eighth episode of this film. Portman was also in front of the camera for Paris, je t'aime , the film's predecessor, but the scenes in which she appeared were cut out before the film was released. Likewise, the scenes from the film New York - I Love You , which showed the 25-year-old Abraham Karpen in the role of Portmann's husband and which had already been filmed until March 13, 2008, became the final version of the film at the insistence of his rabbis strictly Orthodox-Jewish synagogue community Williamsburg away, but Karpen is named in the credits.

The seventh episode, set on the Upper East Side , was originally intended to be directed by Anthony Minghella . However, Minghella passed away on March 18, 2008 just before filming of this episode began. In one of his recent conversations with Shekhar Kapur , he asked him to direct this episode in his place. After Minghella's death Kapur wrote in his blog : "I will lead the film now Directed - with Anthony in my heart and in the presence of his soul." (Engl. " I will direct the film now - with Anthony in my heart and in presence of his soul. “ ) In the opening and closing credits of the film, there is a dedication to Anthony Minghella.

When the film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 , it contained two additional episodes. Scarlett Johansson made her directorial debut in one of these episodes and starred Kevin Bacon . This episode was titled "These Vagabond Shoes" and was shot as a black and white film. The other episode, entitled "Apocrypha", directed Andrei Svyagintsev and starred Carla Gugino , Goran Visnjic and Nicholas Purcell . Prior to the film's theatrical release, these two episodes were removed, but are included as bonus material on the DVD.

The running time of the film is 1:43 hours, which after the abbreviation 143 in net jargon " I love you " is an allusion to the film title.

Episodes

episode Director script actor camera cut music
1 - Chinatown Jiang Wen Hu Hong,
Meng Yao
Adaptation: Israel Horovitz 		Hayden Christensen as Ben
Andy García as Garry
Rachel Bilson as Molly		 Mark Lee Ping Bing Affonso Gonçalves Tonino Baliardo
2 - Diamond District Mira Nair Suketu Mehta Natalie Portman as Rifka Malone
Irrfan Khan as Mansuhkhbai		 Declan Quinn Allyson C. Johnson Mychael Danna
3 - Upper Westside Shunji Iwai Shunji Iwai
Adaptation: Israel Horovitz		 Orlando Bloom as David Cooler
Christina Ricci as Camille		 Michael McDonough Shunji Iwai Shoji Mitsui
4 - SoHo Yvan Attal Olivier Lecot Maggie Q as Call Girl
Ethan Hawke as writer
Chris Cooper as Alex
Robin Wright Penn as Anna		 Benoit Debie Jennifer eye
5 - Central Park Brett Ratner Jeff Nathanson Anton Yelchin as Boy
James Caan as Mr. Riccoli
Olivia Thirlby as Daughter Riccoli / Actress
Blake Lively as Ex-Girlfriend		 Paweł Edelmann Mark Helfrich Mark Mothersbaugh
6 - Greenwich Village Allen Hughes Xan Cassavetes ,
Stephen Winter		 Bradley Cooper as Gus
Drea de Matteo as Lydia		 Michael McDonough Cindy Mollo Atticus Ross ,
Leopold Ross,
Claudia Sarne
7 - Upper Eastside Shekhar Kapur Anthony Minghella Julie Christie as Isabelle
John Hurt as Bellhop
Shia LaBeouf as Jacob		 Benoit Debie Jacob Craycroft Paul Cantelon
8 - Central Park Natalie Portman Natalie Portman Taylor Geare as Teya
Carlos Acosta as Dante
Jacinda Barrett as Maggie		 Jean-Louis Bompoint Tricia Cooke Nicholas Britell
9 - Chinatown Fatih Akin Fatih Akin Uğur Yücel as the painter
Shu Qi as the saleswoman
Burt Young as the landlord		 Mauricio Rubinstein Melody London İlhan Erşahin
10 - Brighton Beach Joshua Marston Joshua Marston Eli Wallach as Abe
Cloris Leachman as Mitzie		 Andrij Parekh Affonso Gonçalves Marcelo Zarvos
Transitions Randy Balsmeyer Hall Powell,
Israel Horovitz,
James Strouse		 Emilie Ohana as Zoe, filmmaker
Eva Amurri as Sarah
Justin Bartha as Justin		 Michael McDonough Affonso Gonçalves Jack Livesey,
Peter Nashel

Film music

The film music for the individual episodes was written by different artists. The music for the opening and closing credits was recorded by The Budos Band , including the tracks Origin of Man , Up From South , TIBWF and Hidden Hand .

In the seventh episode, the title Un Bouquet Des Violettes , written by Paul Cantelon and interpreted by Hila Plitmann, can be heard.

The following titles can also be heard in the film:

  • Flower Room Girl - Cui Jian
  • I'm in the Mood For Love - Jimmy McHugh , Dorothy Fields
  • Klezmer Wedding Dance Medley - The Neshoma Orchestra
  • No Surprises - Radiohead
  • Tian Ya Ge Nu (The Wandering Other Dress) - Zhou Xuan
  • Cha Cha Slide - Mr. C The Slide Man
  • The Way You Look Tonight - The Michael Rose Orchestra
  • The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon and Garfunkel
  • Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity - Gustav Holst
  • XII Fossiles - Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Sarabande - Edvard Grieg
  • No.3, I Hjemalandot - Edvard Grieg
  • Iris - Daby Touré
  • New York City Is The Place - The Con Artists

criticism

Christian Horn von Filmstarts judged: “» New York, I Love You «is a multi-faceted declaration of love to a pulsating city in which milestones such as Taxi Driver or Wall Street were filmed, and a collection of eleven wonderful, blurred short films, all of which are related Worth a look. "

The editorial team of Cinema sums up that the film contains “eleven declarations of love for the city that never sleeps”. It “combines eleven surprising, bizarre and touching short stories about the varieties of love”, was “staged by well-known directors” and “works on the same principle as“ Paris, je t'aime ”, but this time the individual stories are more artfully linked ". This makes the film "more original, more charming and more appropriate than the episodes of the previous film" Paris, je t'aime "."

Nino Klingler says on Critic.de that the film compared to its "Parisian predecessor [...] is a clear step backwards in terms of romantic ingenuity". In spite of these restrictions, however, it is definitely worthwhile “to take a second look at New York, I love you”. Because as an episodic short film hodgepodge "the film does not work badly, maybe even better than many other such collaboration projects".

Sequels

The next project is the production of Shanghai, I Love You . Films about Rio de Janeiro and Jerusalem are also being planned.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release to New York, I Love You . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 287 K).
  2. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  3. ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Internet Movie Database : Background information
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  6. ↑ a b shekharkapur.com: My last conversation with Anthony Minghella , Shekhar Kapur , March 19, 2008
  7. ↑ urbandictionary.com: 143
  8. ^ Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Christian Horn, accessed on June 23, 2011
  9. ↑ a b c Cinema : film review
  10. ^ Critic.de: Filmkritik , Nino Klingler, accessed on August 25, 2013
  11. ^ Credits to the film New York, I Love You
  12. ↑ End credits of the film New York, I Love You : Official website of the film series