''Paris, je t'aime'' (; ''Paris, I love you'') is a 2006

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starring an

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of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen

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s set in different

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(districts). The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen,

Isabel Coixet Isabel Coixet Castillo (; born 9 April 1960 ) is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in additio ...

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Nobuhiro Suwa is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University. Biography Having graduated from Hiroshima ...

Alexander Payne Constantine Alexander Payne (; born February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the films ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), '' About Schmidt'' (2002), '' Sideways'' (2004), '' The D ...

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, and

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Production

Julio Medem was attached to the project for a long time. He was supposed to direct one of the segments starring

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, but this finally fell through because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of ''

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'' (2007). ''Paris, je t'aime'' is the first feature film to be fully scanned in 6K and mastered in 4K in Europe (as opposed to the normal 2K). Encoding the image took about 24 hours per reel (at Laboratoires Éclair). Both

Emmanuel Benbihy Emmanuel Benbihy (born 6 November 1969, Paris) is a French film producer, best known for creating the ''Cities of Love'' series of films set in various cities around the world; most notable of those are ''Paris, je t'aime'' and ''New York, I Lov ...

and Gilles Caussade served as executive producers on the project. As the film is a collection of shorter segments, there were also producers attached to each episode of the project.

Arrondissements

Initially, 20 short films representing the 20 arrondissements of Paris were planned, but two of them (the 15th arrondissement, directed by Christoffer Boe, and the 11th arrondissement, by

Raphaël Nadjari Raphaël Nadjari ( he, רפאל נדג'ארי; born 1971) is a French-Israeli writer and director for film and television. In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director. In 1997, he wrote the television screenpla ...

) were not included in the final film because they could not be properly integrated into it. Each arrondissement is followed by a few images of Paris; these transition sequences were written by

and directed by Benbihy with Frédéric Auburtin. Including Benbihy, there were 22 directors involved in the finished film.

Release

The film premiered at the

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on 18 May, opening the ''

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'' selection. It had its

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premiere at the

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on 10 September and its US premiere in

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on 9 April 2007.

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acquired the North American rights, and the film opened in the United States on 4 May 2007.

Reception

''Paris, je t'aime'' received generally positive reviews. It currently holds an 86% approval rating on

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based on 112 reviews, with an average score of 7.1/10. The site's consensus states: "''Paris je t'aime'' is uneven, but there are more than enough delightful moments in this omnibus tribute to the City of Lights to tip the scale in its favor."

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gives the film a 66/100 rating based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Influence

Following the success of ''Paris, je t'aime'', a similarly structured film, '' New York, I Love You'', focusing on life in that city, premiered at the 2008

and was released in a limited number of theatres in 2009. A third entry in the series, ''

Rio, Eu Te Amo ''Rio, I Love You'' ( pt, Rio, Eu Te Amo) is a 2014 Brazilian anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. It's the fourth film in the ''Cities of Love'' franchise (following 2006's ''Paris, je t'aime'', the 2008 f ...

'', was released in 2014. ''

Berlin, I Love You ''Berlin, I Love You'' is a 2019 anthology romantic drama film starring an ensemble cast. A joint German and U.S. production, it serves as an installment of the ''Cities of Love'', series created by Emmanuel Benbihy. It was released on February ...

'' followed this later in 2019.

References

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