Paris, I Love You

Paris, I love you) is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements or administrative districts of Paris city. The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Gérard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Nobuhiro Suwa, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Yolande Moreau and Gus Van Sant.

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Running time 120 minutes

Country  France Lichtenstein Switzerland  Germany

Language  French English Spanish Mandarin Arabic

1

Director: Bruno Podalydès

 A man parks his car on a Montmartre street and muses about how the women passing by his car all seem to be "taken". Then a woman passerby faints near his car, and he comes to her aid.

2

Director: Paul Mayeda Berges and Gurinder Chadha

 A young man, hanging out with two friends who taunt all women who walk by, strikes up a friendship with a young Muslim woman.

3

Director: Gus Van Sant A young male customer finds himself attracted to a young printshop worker and tries to explain that he believes the man to be his soulmate, not realizing that he speaks little French.

4

Director: Joel and Ethan

 A comedy in which an American tourist waiting at the Tuileries station becomes involved in the conflict between a young couple after he breaks the cardinal rule of avoiding eye contact with people on the Paris Metro.

5

Director: Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas

A young immigrant woman sings a Spanish lullaby ("Qué Linda Manita") to her baby before leaving it in a daycare. She then takes an extremely long commute to the home of her wealthy employer (whose face is not seen), where she sings the same lullaby to her employer's baby.

6

Director: Christopher Doyle A comedy in which a beauty products salesman makes a call on a Chinatown salon run by a woman who proves to be a tough customer.

7

Director: Isabel Coixet

Prepared to leave his marriage for a much younger lover, Marie Christine, a man named Sergio instead decides to stay with his wife after she reveals a terminal illness - and he rediscovers the love he once felt for her.

8

Director: Nobuhiro Suwa

 A mother, grieving over the death of her little boy, is comforted by a magical cowboy.

9

Director: Sylvain Chomet

 A boy tells how his parents meet in prison and fall in love.

10

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

 An older man and younger woman meet for an arrangement that a third person ('Gaspard'), who is close to the woman, may not approve of. It is eventually revealed that the young woman is his daughter, and Gaspard is her baby. The film was shot in a single continuous shot. When the characters walk by a video store, several posters of films by the other directors of Paris, je t'aime are visible in the window.

11

Director: Olivier Assayas

An American actress procures some exceptionally strong hashish from a dealer whom she gets a crush on.

12

Director: Oliver Schmitz

A Nigerian man dying from a stab wound in the Place des fêtes asks a female paramedic for a cup of coffee. It is then revealed that he had fallen in love at first sight with her some time previously. By the time she remembers him, and has received the coffee, he has died.

13

Director: Richard LaGravenese

An aging couple act out a fantasy argument for a prostitute in order to keep the spark in their relationship.

14

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Natali A young backpacker tourist falls in love with a vampiress.

15

Director: Wes Craven

While visiting Père Lachaise Cemetery, a young woman breaks up with her fiancé, who then redeems himself with the aid of advice from the ghost of Oscar Wilde.

16

Director: Tom Tykwer

After mistakenly believing that his girlfriend, a struggling actress, has broken up with him, a young blind man reflects on the growth and seeming decline of their relationship.

17

Director: Gérard Depardieu and Frédéric Auburtin

A separated couple meet at a bar for one last drink before the two officially divorce.

18

Director: Alexander Payne

Carol, a letter carrier from Denver, Colorado on her first European holiday, recites in rough French what she loves about Paris.