Paris, je t'aime
| Movie | |
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| German title | Paris, je t'aime |
| Original title | Paris, je t'aime |
| Country of production | France , Germany , Liechtenstein , Switzerland |
| original language | French , English , Spanish , Arabic , Mandarin |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | various |
| script | various |
| production |
Emmanuel Benbihy , Claudie Ossard , Burkhard Von Schenk , Matthias Batthyany , Stefan Piech |
| music |
Pierre Adenot , Michael Andrews , Reinhold Heil , Johnny Klimek , Marie Sabbah , Tom Tykwer |
| camera | various |
| cut | various |
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Paris, je t'aime ( German : “Paris, I love you”) is a French , European co-produced episode film from 2006, in which each of the 18 episodes was dedicated to an arrondissement of Paris and each directed by a different director. It is the first part of Emmanuel Benbihy's “Cities of Love” film series.
action
18 episodes tell stories from the respective arrondissements of Paris:
1. Montmartre ( 18th arr. ) - Directed by Bruno Podalydès
A stressed man is looking for one of the few parking spaces in the winding, narrow streets of Montmartre . When he has finally found a parking space in which he can park with great difficulty, he remains seated in the car. He wonders why he's still single while watching passing women and couples. One woman piques his particular interest. As she passes his car, she collapses. He gets out to help her and, with the help of passers-by, who think the fainted woman is his wife, puts her in his back seat. The woman comes to and gratefully grabs his hand when he offers to drive her to her destination.
2. Quais de Seine ( 5th arr. ) - Director: Gurinder Chadha
Three young men sit on the banks of the Seine , chanting foul pick-up lines after girls passing by. A young Muslim woman in a hijab listens to them with an ironic smile. As she starts, she trips over a stone. One of the young men helps her up and tries to tie her headscarf again. He takes a picture of her on his cell phone and they have a short chat. When she goes to visit the mosque , the young man hesitantly follows her. When she leaves the mosque with her grandfather, the young man stays behind. However, the grandfather invites him to go with them.
3. Le Marais ( 4th arr. ) - Director: Gus Van Sant
A young man and a woman come to a print shop as customers to have a picture reproduced. While the woman is talking to the owner of the print shop, the man begins to talk to a worker, who is also young, and to tell him about kinship. He writes down his phone number and leaves. When the boss asks his employee what's going on, the latter tells him in English that he didn't understand the young man and didn't know what he wanted from him. The worker then leaves the print shop and runs through the streets of Paris looking for something.
4. Tuileries ( 1st arr. ) - Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen
A tourist who is waiting on a bench for the next metro reads in his travel guide that one should avoid looking other people in the eye in the metro. At that moment he looks at the platform opposite, sees a couple kissing - and their eyes meet. The man calls out to the tourist not to stare at his girlfriend. She gets upset about her boyfriend's jealousy, goes to the tourist on the other side, sits down next to him and gives him a kiss. The tourist is then beaten up by the man and remains lying on the ground with his Mona Lisa postcards while the couple reconciles and leaves.
5. Loin du 16e ( 16th arr. ) - Directors: Walter Salles , Daniela Thomas
Ana gets up early in the morning in a dreary Parisian suburb. She hands her baby over to a day nursery and softly sings him a Spanish nursery rhyme before she leaves. After a long and tiring trip by tram and metro, she finally arrives at her place of work. She is a nanny and has to take care of another woman's baby to whom she sings the same song.
6. Porte de Choisy ( 13th arr. ) - Director: Christopher Doyle
Henny, an aging representative of hairdressing products, unintentionally frightens a passer-by who promptly drops her shopping bag. In a hairdressing salon, he first meets an Asian woman who is Thai boxing. He then gives the Asian hairdressers tips for new hairstyles and is then accompanied for a while on his way home by the Asian woman, who is now wearing a black evening dress.
7th Bastille ( 11th arr. ) - Directed by Isabel Coixet
A man is sitting in a bistro waiting for his wife, whom he wants to tell that he no longer loves her and is leaving for a stewardess. Before he can bring this up, however, his wife tearfully hands him a certificate from her doctor stating that she has leukemia , is in the terminal stage and has only a short time to live. The man decides to stand by her in the difficult time ahead. He sends his lover a text message advising her to forget about him, whereupon she collapses. The man plays his love for his wife so intensely that he really begins to love her again. When she dies he is heartbroken.
8. Place des Victoires ( 2nd arr. ) - Director: Nobuhiro Suwa
Suzanne has suffered from depression since the death of her young son. One night she thinks she can hear her son's voice leading her to the Place des Victoires , where a cowboy is riding towards her on horseback. He grants her one last hug with her son, who loved cowboys and Indians. She kisses him and can finally say goodbye to her beloved son. She returns to her husband comforted.
9. Tour Eiffel ( 7th arr. ) - Director: Sylvain Chomet
A boy with a huge satchel is supposed to tell how his parents met. His father is a mime who wanders through Paris, goes to prison and meets a mime there. They both fall in love and eventually become the boy's parents.
10. Parc Monceau ( 17th arr. ) - Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
A young woman named Claire meets with an older man and walks with him down a street. She complains that a certain Gaspard is going to get very upset about it. The man tries to calm her down and thinks that she should take some time for herself. As it turns out, it's her father Vincent. He's supposed to take care of Claire's son Gaspard while Claire goes to the movies with her friend. As soon as the women are gone, Vincent lights a cigarette - and the baby starts to cry.
11. Quartier des Enfants Rouges ( 3rd arr. ) - Director: Olivier Assayas
The American actress Liz invites the drug dealer who brings her supplies to visit her on the set of her latest film. However, he sends a deputy to her because of an important customer. Disappointed, Liz takes the drugs and pays.
12. Place des fêtes ( 19th arr. ) - Director: Oliver Schmitz
A badly injured black man named Hassan asks the paramedic Sophie, who is also black, to have a coffee with him. While the coffee is being fetched and she is giving him first aid, he tells her how they met once at his workplace in a parking garage. He fell in love with her then. When Sophie drove away in her car, he ran after her, which is why his boss fired him. He then earned a little money as a street musician. When he spoke to a woman who looked like Sophie, a group of young people noticed him. His guitar was taken away from him and while trying to get it back, one of the youths stabbed him with a knife. The moment he dies, Sophie is given two coffee cups. She holds it in her hands and cries.
13th Pigalle ( 9th arr. ) - Director: Richard LaGravenese
An older man named Bob enters a brothel, where he meets the mature Fanny at the bar, who has apparently been waiting for him. Bob wants to watch a girl doing a private striptease. Fanny enters the room and says that she can offer him a lot more. They start arguing, and it turns out that their meeting was staged by the two of them just to bring new life to their relationship. They leave the establishment and walk through the streets to a place where a band is playing their song. Bob had arranged this for Fanny and now explains to her that she is the only woman he has ever loved. They kiss and walk through a gate together. Finally, a poster shows their names and photos with the headline that their joint play will not be seen much longer.
14. Quartier de la Madeleine ( 8th arr. ) - Director: Vincenzo Natali
A young tourist watches a female vampire sucking blood . When the vampire notices him, she pounces on him, but does not hurt him. When she lets go of him, he cuts his artery with a broken bottle and offers her his blood. The vampire doesn't accept it and goes away. Meanwhile, the tourist loses consciousness and falls down a flight of stairs. His head hits the ground so hard that blood immediately flows out of a head wound and wets the heart-shaped ground. The vampire drips blood from her wrist artery into the mouth of the apparently dead tourist, whereupon the latter comes back to "life". Now he has sharp vampire teeth too. Instead, when their lips approach in a kiss, they bite each other's necks and begin to drink each other's blood.
15. Père-Lachaise ( 20th arr. ) - Director: Wes Craven
Frances and William plan to get married in a few weeks. As they walk together in the Père Lachaise cemetery in search of the graves of celebrities, Frances realizes that William has no sense of humor. She is convinced that she can never be happy with such a man, and therefore wants to cancel the planned wedding. Suddenly the ghost of Oscar Wilde appears at his grave and gives William advice. This runs after Frances, gives her a kiss and makes her laugh spontaneously. They leave the cemetery arm in arm.
16. Faubourg Saint-Denis ( 10th arr. ) - Director: Tom Tykwer (original name of the short film: True )
A blind young man named Thomas gets a call from his girlfriend Francine - she wants to break up with him. When he hung up the phone, he remembers how he once met her. He heard her screaming desperately through an open window on the first floor of a house. When he went to the window and she saw him, she explained that she was only practicing for an audition at the drama school. They eventually became a couple and he now remembers many hours together until Francine calls him again. She asks him if her words on the phone were convincing, because again she was just practicing a role. When her boyfriend is silent, she asks him if he can even hear her. He replies: "No, I see you."
17. Quartier Latin ( 6th arr. ) - Directed by Gérard Depardieu , Frédéric Auburtin
They have been separated for a long time, but now Ben and Gena want an official divorce because Ben's new girlfriend is three months pregnant. Gena is also in a new relationship with a much younger man. This time it's not a writer but a cyclist. When they talked about it in a restaurant, their humorous interactions still testify to their deep mutual affection. When Ben wants to pay, the landlord tells him that the bill is on the house.
18. 14e arrondissement ( 14th arr. ) - Director: Alexander Payne
The American tourist Carol, neither young, pretty, nor slim and unwillingly single, wants to experience Paris. She actually wanted to drive for two weeks, but because of her dogs, she had to limit herself to one week. She visits the Montparnasse cemetery and sits in front of the grave of Porfirio Díaz . Looking out over Paris from a skyscraper, she regrets not being able to tell anyone how beautiful she thinks the view is. In an alley, she wishes to be able to do her job as a postman and get to know the residents. As she sits alone on a bench in a park and watches the people around her, she feels alive again. Suddenly she feels that she loves Paris - and that her love is reciprocated by the city.
background
The German director Tom Tykwer presented his episode Faubourg Saint Denis as a short film under the title True at the Berlinale in 2004 . From this the idea finally developed to persuade other directors to make similar short films and to put them together into an episode film about Paris . The other episodes were created until November 2005. Originally, 20 episodes were planned to represent the 20 Parisian arrondissements . Two of the episodes, that of Christoffer Boe about the 15th and that of Raphaël Nadjari about the 12th arrondissement, were ultimately not included in the film.
Paris, je t'aime premiered on May 18, 2006 at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival . In Germany, the film was released on January 25, 2007, where it attracted more than 193,000 visitors. The film grossed around $ 17.5 million worldwide.
Reviews
Many critics perceived a difference in quality between the individual episodes. “Of course there are also a few mediocre contributions among the 18 contributions,” wrote Matthias Heine in Die Welt . Which of the episodes turned out less well, each viewer will have his own opinion. "But that doesn't detract from the entertainment and elegance of the overall film."
Martin Girod of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung commented critically that the stories of most of the episodes could also have occurred elsewhere. The fact that they played in Paris and in the respective district seems "rather artificial". The work of so many different directors, actors, cameramen and editors on the stories of “the more or less original ideas” is “primarily confusing in the result”.
"The star line-up, the variety of subjects and imaginative plots as well as the cleverly structured compilation enable numerous discoveries to be made in the entertaining, sometimes melancholy, often humorous stories that share a positive basic tone," was the verdict of the international film dictionary . Although the episode film had a large cast of stars, "the different appetizers don't really fill you up," said Cinema again . "Sometimes gorgeous, sometimes frustrating" are the individual episodes, so that not all of them "really want to watch".
Sequels
As a sequel to Paris, je t'aime , the film New York, I Love You was released in 2009 , to which this time directors Fatih Akın , Yvan Attal and Allen Hughes contributed episodes. In 2014, two more sequels were released with Tbilisi, I Love You and Rio, I Love You . As part of the “Cities of Love” film series, Berlin, I Love You, was also released in 2019 .
German version
The German dubbed version was made at Hermes Synchron in Potsdam . Hilke Flickenschildt was responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| motorist | Bruno Podalydès | Peter Flechtner |
| young woman | Florence Muller | Bettina White |
| François | Cyril Descours | Ozan Unal |
| Gaspard | Gaspard Ulliel | Julien Haggége |
| tourist | Steve Buscemi | Udo Schenk |
| Representative Henny | Barbet Schroeder | Bodo Wolf (voice actor) |
| wife | Miranda Richardson | Hilke Flickenschildt |
| husband | Sergio Castellitto | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Suzanne | Juliette Binoche | Arianne Borbach |
| cowboy | Willem Dafoe | Jan Spitzer |
| father | Hippolyte Girardot | Gerald Schaale |
| Claire | Ludivine Sagnier | Antje von der Ahe |
| Vincent | Nick Nolte | Thomas Danneberg |
| Liz | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Melanie Hinze |
| Sophie | Aïssa Maïga | Diana Borgwardt |
| Fanny | Fanny Ardant | Traudel Haas |
| bob | Bob Hoskins | Klaus Sunshine |
| Frances | Emily Mortimer | Irina von Bentheim |
| William | Rufus Sewell | Viktor Neumann |
| Oscar Wilde | Alexander Payne | Stefan Staudinger |
| Francine | Natalie Portman | Manja Doering |
| Thomas | Melchior Beslon | Matthias Schweighofer |
| Gena | Gena Rowlands | Almut Eggert |
| Ben | Ben Gazzara | Werner Ehrlicher |
| host | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
DVD publications
- Paris, je t'aime . Universum Film GmbH 2007, with cinema trailer, picture gallery, making-of , deleted scenes, animated short film by Vincenzo Natali and animated storyboard .
- Paris, je t'aime: great cinematic moments . Universum Film GmbH 2009, with making-of, trailer and booklet with information about the film.
Soundtrack
- Different artists: Paris, je t'aime . Polydor (Universal) 2007, a CD with 21 songs and recordings of the film music.
Web links
- Paris, je t'aime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paris, je t'aime at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Paris, je t'aime at Metacritic (English)
- Official website of the film series
- Collection of reviews on Paris, je t'aime on filmz.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Paris, je t'aime . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2007 (PDF; test number: 108 788 K).
- ^ Age rating for Paris, je t'aime . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ A b Matthias Heine: Believe the travel guide: "Paris, je t'aime" . In: Die Welt , January 25, 2007.
- ↑ cf. insidekino.de
- ↑ cf. boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ Martin Girod: Puzzle of a big city . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 29, 2006.
- ^ Paris, je t'aime. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ^ Paris, je t'aime. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on March 2, 2020 .