Paris, I love you I read about this movie and was very eager to see it, but due to odd timings I could not see it for nearly 2 weeks. I was eager to see this movie because I got to know that the format of the movie was new, it had 18 movies of about 5 to 9 minutes to depict the feeling of LOVE in Paris. This movie, the story and the format could have been set up in any international city Tokyo, New York or Bombay.
All the stories depict one emotion love. The idea was to invite some of the best directors from around the world and ask them to make a 5 minute movie in Paris showing love.
To begin with - not all the directors chosen are world class and nor all the stories are good. But the idea and effort is commendable. It is difficult to remember all the stories at the end of the movie but I will try to do some justice by mentioning those I can recall.
There are a few very good stories I found a black nurse caring for a stabbed black men, the most touching story. There was another story of a young French boy getting attracted to a Muslim girl and sitting in front of a mosque for her to come out, was poignant. The story of a lady tourist in Paris (this was the last story of the movie) being alone and with oneself was also a good. Another story of an old divorce couple meeting after several years in a Paris restaurant discussing their pending legal issues was amusing as well as sad, at one point in that story we feel that there might be a possibility for the couple to get together and they present the option too. The fantasy story of love in the dark streets of Paris between a ghost lady vampire and her latest victim is also interesting. The story by Cohen brothers had their typical trademark stamp of small amount of anger and humor dished out with love it was about a tourist on a railway platform trying to make out Paris through what he reads in his Paris tour guide and ends up being badly beaten by a lover boy, and teased by a small kid. There were several un-impressing stories of drug addict, a joker, one involving cemetery of Oscar Wilde, a man caring for a lady who becomes unconscious in front of his car and an old man taking care of a kid even though these stories are told with genuine intent were not engaging enough.
Paris is captured beautifully, in day shots night shots and high camera shots. The dark lanes, the crowded roads, the People are canvassed graphically.
Just a trivia when I entered the hall, I was the first person inside the hall, but found strangely 3 kids of around age 7, 9, and 12 years sitting waiting for the movie to start. I was wondering at their interest in such movie, and thought that may be they wanted to see another children's movie and by mistake ended up in this cinema hall. But seeing their free gimmicking and laughing behavior I understood that was not the case, they had just come to enjoy some movie. I think they did not know the format of this movie and that is why could not understand any head or tail of what is going on and walked off the hall before the fifth story was rolled out.
I would surely appreciate and would like to see similar efforts being drawn from other regions would be really interesting to see what type of fare directors dish out from Hollywood for New York, Bollywood for Bombay. Just a speculative idea! I am giving this movie an extra star for its format.
People who love to see experimental cinema should go and watch it.
(6 Stars)
All the stories depict one emotion love. The idea was to invite some of the best directors from around the world and ask them to make a 5 minute movie in Paris showing love.
To begin with - not all the directors chosen are world class and nor all the stories are good. But the idea and effort is commendable. It is difficult to remember all the stories at the end of the movie but I will try to do some justice by mentioning those I can recall.
There are a few very good stories I found a black nurse caring for a stabbed black men, the most touching story. There was another story of a young French boy getting attracted to a Muslim girl and sitting in front of a mosque for her to come out, was poignant. The story of a lady tourist in Paris (this was the last story of the movie) being alone and with oneself was also a good. Another story of an old divorce couple meeting after several years in a Paris restaurant discussing their pending legal issues was amusing as well as sad, at one point in that story we feel that there might be a possibility for the couple to get together and they present the option too. The fantasy story of love in the dark streets of Paris between a ghost lady vampire and her latest victim is also interesting. The story by Cohen brothers had their typical trademark stamp of small amount of anger and humor dished out with love it was about a tourist on a railway platform trying to make out Paris through what he reads in his Paris tour guide and ends up being badly beaten by a lover boy, and teased by a small kid. There were several un-impressing stories of drug addict, a joker, one involving cemetery of Oscar Wilde, a man caring for a lady who becomes unconscious in front of his car and an old man taking care of a kid even though these stories are told with genuine intent were not engaging enough.
Paris is captured beautifully, in day shots night shots and high camera shots. The dark lanes, the crowded roads, the People are canvassed graphically.
Just a trivia when I entered the hall, I was the first person inside the hall, but found strangely 3 kids of around age 7, 9, and 12 years sitting waiting for the movie to start. I was wondering at their interest in such movie, and thought that may be they wanted to see another children's movie and by mistake ended up in this cinema hall. But seeing their free gimmicking and laughing behavior I understood that was not the case, they had just come to enjoy some movie. I think they did not know the format of this movie and that is why could not understand any head or tail of what is going on and walked off the hall before the fifth story was rolled out.
I would surely appreciate and would like to see similar efforts being drawn from other regions would be really interesting to see what type of fare directors dish out from Hollywood for New York, Bollywood for Bombay. Just a speculative idea! I am giving this movie an extra star for its format.
People who love to see experimental cinema should go and watch it.
(6 Stars)