Romance

Category: Romance
All Genres: Romance
Release Year: 2006
Country: France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
Runtime: 120
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin
Director: Olivier AssayasFrédéric AuburtinEmmanuel BenbihyGurinder ChadhaSylvain ChometEthan CoenJoel CoenIsabel CoixetWes CravenAlfonso CuarónGérard DepardieuChristopher DoyleRichard LaGraveneseVincenzo NataliAlexander PayneBruno PodalydèsWalter SallesOliver SchmitzNobuhiro SuwaDaniela ThomasTom TykwerGus Van Sant
Sound: Dolby Digital
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Writing by: Tristan Carné – (idea)
Emmanuel Benbihy – (feature film concept and transitions)
Bruno Podalydès – (segment "Montmartre")
Paul Mayeda Berges – (segment "Quais de Seine") &
Gurinder Chadha – (segment "Quais de Seine")
Gus Van Sant – (segment "Le Marais")
Ethan Coen – (segment "Tuileries") &
Joel Coen – (segment "Tuileries")
Walter Salles – (segment "Loin du 16ème") &
Daniela Thomas – (segment "Loin du 16ème")
Christopher Doyle – (segment "Porte de Choisy") &
Gabrielle Keng – (segment "Porte de Choisy") &
Rain Li – (segment "Porte de Choisy") (as Kathy Li)
Isabel Coixet – (segment "Bastille")
Nobuhiro Suwa – (segment "Place des Victoires")
Sylvain Chomet – (segment "Tour Eiffel")
Alfonso Cuarón – (segment "Parc Monceau")
Olivier Assayas – (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
Oliver Schmitz – (segment "Place des Fêtes")
Richard LaGravenese – (segment "Pigalle")
Vincenzo Natali – (segment "Quartier de la Madeleine")
Wes Craven – (segment "Père-Lachaise")
Tom Tykwer – (segment "Faubourg Saint-Denis")
Gena Rowlands – (segment "Quartier Latin")
Nadine Eïd – (segment "14th arrondissement") &
Alexander Payne – (segment "14th arrondissement")

Produced by: Matthias Batthyany – co-producer
Emmanuel Benbihy – producer
Chris Bolzli – executive producer
Gilles Caussade – executive producer
Rafi Chaudry – executive producer
Nicholas Druz – associate co-producer
Sam Englebardt – executive producer
Henri Jacob – associate producer
Ara Katz – executive producer
Maria Köpf – executive producer
Fred Malek – assistant producer
Frank Moss – executive producer
Claudie Ossard – producer
Stefan Piech – co-producer
Chad Troutwine – executive producer
Burkhard Von Schenk – co-producer
Shaw-Lang Wang – associate co-producer

Cast: Florence Muller – Young Woman (segment "Montmartre")
Hervé Pierre – Doctor (segment "Montmartre")
Bruno Podalydès – Driver (segment Montmartre)
Leïla Bekhti – Zarka (segment Quais de Seine)
Julien Beramis – Arnaud (segment "Quais de Seine")
Cyril Descours – François (segment Quais de Seine)
Thomas Dumerchez – Manu (segment "Quais de Seine")
Daniely Francisque – Black Girl #1 (segment "Quais de Seine")
Audrey Fricot – Black Girl #2 (segment "Quais de Seine")
Salah Teskouk – Zarkas Grandfather (segment "Quais de Seine")
Christian Bramsen – Printer (segment "Le Marais")

Music: Pierre Adenot Michael Andrews Reinhold Heil Johnny Klimek Marie Sabbah Tom Tykwer
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Plot Outline: Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened.
Plot: Paris, je taime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers will bring their own personal touch, underlining the wide variety of styles, genres, encounters and the various atmospheres and lifestyles that prevail in the neighborhoods of Paris. Each director has been given five minutes of freedom, and we, as producers, carry the responsibility of weaving a single narrative unit out of those twenty moments. The 20 films will not appear in the order of the arrondissements, from one to twenty, but rather, in a pertinent narrative order, initially unknown to the audience. They will be fused together by transitional interstitial sequences, and also via the introduction and epilogue sequences of the feature film. Each transition will begin with the last shot of the previous film and will end with the first shot of the following film, and will have a threefold function: 1) The first is to extend the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, 2) The second is to prepare the audience for the surprise of the next segment, and 3) The third is to provide a general, comfortable and cohesive atmosphere to the feature film. The delightful and brief interludes of these transitions will enable the viewer to slide from one world to the next, featuring a recurring and unexpected character. This mysterious character is a witness to the Parisian life and helps create a continuous narration. It appears both in and in-between the films. In addition to the information these transitions will provide about the city and its people, their tone will be intentionally light often referring to famous scenes easily attributed to the history of Paris cinema. Similar specifications will be followed by the composer who will supervise the musical fusion between the films and the transitions as he creates the musical score of Paris, je taime. Considering the common theme of Paris and Love, the fusion between the films and the transitions, the fast pace of a fluid and complete storytelling, Paris, je taime will not be just another “anthology” picture. It will be a unique collective feature film that will constitute a two-hour cinematographic spectacle whose original structure will make for a dramatically different experience for its global audience.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the cast list in the credits, the movie shows the girls walking past a staircase. A teacher is walking down and drops a whole pile of papers and the papers spread all over the staircase. A group of male teachers come by and they bend down to help. When they bend down, you see different patterned thongs.

Goofs: We know about 34 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Kate is holding the estrogen bottle, it shows in the close up that she is holding it with her left hand, but when in the full body shot of Kate, she is holding it with her right hand.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• The segment “Parc Monceau” directed by Alfonso Cuarón was shot in a single continuous shot.
• This is the first feature film 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 Йclair).
• Julio Medem was attached to the project for a long time. He was supposed to direct one of the segments, but he finally fell off because of schedule conflicts with the filming of Caótica Ana (2007).