PARIS JE T'AIME

Synopsis

Twenty-one of the world's most distinctive and modern directors were asked to paint cinematic portraits of different locales and arrondissements of Paris; some are familiar, some off the beaten track. These little portraits, stories and jokes run together fluidly, many, of course, returning to the theme of love, involving joy, separation and unexpected encounters. There are romances, eccentricities, political fables, comedies. The result is an enchanting collage of vignettes, evoking Paris in all its mystery and beauty and featuring many famous faces: Juliette Binoche, Nick Nolte, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gylenhaal. Marianne Faithfull, Willem Dafoe. While, of course, such diversity can often tend to be a mixed blessing, this rich selection proves charmingly inventive, often funny and always enchanting - like Paris itself

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Cast & Credits

• Director:  Frederic Auburtin, Gerard Depardieu
• Producer:  Claudie Ossard, Emmanuel Benbihy, Tim Grohne
• Scriptwriter:  Gena Rowlands, Nadine Eid, Paul Mayeda Berges
• Cinematographer:  Bruno Delbonnel, David Questmand, Denis Lenoir, Eric Gautier, Eric Guichard, Frank Griebe, Gerard Sterin, Jean-Claude Larrieu, Mathieu poirot Delpech, Michael Seresin, Michel Amathieu, Pascal Marti, Pascal Rabaud, Pierre Aim, Tetsuo Nagata
• Editor:  Alexandre Rodriguez, Anne Klotz, Hisako Suwa, Isabel Meier, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Simon Jacquet, Stan Collet
• Composer:  Pierre Adenot
• Cast (in alphabetical order):  Aissa Maiga, Alexander Payne, Axel Kiener, Barbet Schroeder, Ben Gazzara, Bob Hoskins, Bruno Podalydes, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Cyril Descours, Elias McConnell, Elijah Wood, Fanny Ardant, Gaspard Ulliel, Gena Rowlands, Gerard Depardieu, Hippolyte Girardot, Julie Bataille, Juliette Binoche, Leila Bekhti, Leonor Watling, Li Xin, Lionel Dray, Ludivine Sagnier, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Margo Martindale, Marianne Faithfull, Melchoir Beslon, Miranda Richardson, Natalie Portman, Nick Nolte, Olga Kurylenko, Paul Putner, Rufus Sewell, Sergio Castellitto, Seydou Boro, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Yolande Moreau