Synopsis
Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris Je T'aime features eighteen short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in collaboration). In "Faubourg Saint-Denis,"
Tom Tykwer directs
Natalie Portman as an American actress who is the object of affection for a blind student (Melchior Belson).
Christopher Doyle's "Porte de Choisy" follows a salesman (
Barbet Schroeder) as he tries to pitch beauty aids in Chinatown.
Nick Nolte and
Ludivine Sagnier are father and daughter in "Parc Monceau" from Alfonso Cuaron. Animator
Sylvain Chomet turns his eye to a pair of living, breathing mimes in "Tour Eiffel." An interracial romance in France is offered by Gurinder Chadha in "Quais de Seine." In "Le Marais" from
Gus Van Sant, a man (
Gaspard Ulliel) finds himself falling for a handsome gent (Elias McConnell) who works in a print shop. Isabelle Coixet tells the tale of a man (Sergio Castellitto) who is making his final choice between his wife (
Miranda Richardson) and his lover (
Leonor Watling) in "Bastille."
Juliette Binoche plays a grieving mother in Nobuhiro Suwa's "Place des Victoires," in which she's greeted by a spectral cowboy (
Willem Dafoe). Richard LaGravanese's "Pigalle" finds a long-married man (
Bob Hoskins) turning to a prostitute for advice on pleasing his wife (
Fanny Ardant). Gerard Depardieu and Frederic Auburtin direct
Gena Rowlands and
Ben Gazzara as longtime marrieds meeting for one final pre-divorce encounter in "Quartier Latin."
Steve Buscemi learns a lesson about local etiquette in the Paris Metro in "Tuileries" from Joel and Ethan Coen. In "Loin du 16eme" by Walter Salles, a housekeeper (
Catalina Sandino Moreno) longs for her own child as she tends to the infant of her wealthy employer.
Elijah Wood stars in "Quartier de la Madeleine," a vampire tale from from
Vincenzo Na