quel est amour? et, quelle est votre interprétation de l'amour? indeed that was just what 18 directors and sets of actresses and actors tried to define in their version of "Paris, je t'aime"... a lovely (albeit a few quirky and strange ones within the) potpourri of SHORTS about love, and in particular, the essence or flavour of love that one might discover in the different arrondissements of Paris...
no doubt the cast and crew will impress you... but it is what i would describe as the "RAW" everyday emotional expressions and the provocative-yet-almost-incidental-observational-style of looking at a few snippets of others' lives... which may or may not reflect some of our own experiences that makes this film a wonderful quilt about definitions of love. and love in all its various ironic, frustrating, indulging, addictive, and simplistic forms... love across cultures, beyond mortality, and indeed, in any language...
hope you will come across it at a cinema near you... je pense que vous pourriez l'aimer aussi !
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Tuesday, 19 June, 2007 at 15:51 hrsHey Mayee, I am glad you saw this really nice and interesting movie, too! I was so lucky to catch it already in January at Tübingen's French Film Festival (the biggest French Film Festival in Germany, they say, by the way), and I find it absolutely recommendable, too. I was very surprised and impressed by how well it works to line up these different 5-minute pieces and get an interesting movie out of it.
Another recommendable movie I saw recently: DarkBlueAlmostBlack, which is the first movie by Spanish director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo.
heyee Frauke! thanks for the recommendation! will try to suss out the other movie whenever i get a chance to!
aren't those wee snippets of love wonderful?
trust the french to get to the human-condition in such succinct ways!
Yes it was a lovely film! The soundtrack is great too. I wrote a generic review here.
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