Saturday, May 17, 2008

paris, je t'aime, i really do



saw paris, je t'aime yesterday..

i can't actually say it's great or wonderful or awesome.. it's all this and more..

it's a project in which 22 directors co-operated in (can't have been easy).. each of them has about six minutes to express their thoughts on the two main themes - paris and love..

quite extraordinary.. i personally loved not one but seven of these mini-movies (but that doesn't make the rest bad.. well, one was weird..)
- Montmartre by Bruno Podalydés
- Tuileries by Joel and Ethan Coen with fantastic Steve Buscemi
- Bastille by isabel Coixet (i read about this one and was very expectant - and it really was a real short film, with all a short film needs and has..)
- Parc Monceau by Alfonso Cuarón with Nick Nolte and shot as a single shot
- Pigalle by Richard LaGravenese with stunning Fanny Ardant and Bob Hoskins
- Pere-Lachaise by Wes Craven with my fave Rufus Sewell (and Oscar Wilde *thumbs up*)
- 14e by Alexander Payne (who played Oscar Wilde before) told by an american tourist with her rough french (with a very heavy US accent:) brilliant

overall: brilliant for us, paris-lovers

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