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Yep it opens on June 21st. Maybe there will be previews before. Edit: Actually it is being shown twice this week in the 5th.

This has been in the making for a few years, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

David, Elijah Wood wasn't in Elephant. Gaspard Ulliel was also in "A Very Long Engagement."

For screenings if you have internet access while in Paris, check http://www.allocine.fr/ Preview screenings tend to be advertised by magazines such as Les Inrockuptibles, and other mags such as Premiere usually they offer seats to subcribers, but I think it's open to the general public too.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrqtxogmME

The film looks cute, and interesting, and fun. It probably won't receive a wide release in the US.

Christ, that trailer is like porn for foreign art-film fan-boys.

Davidhare, are you in Australia or France because the film is not opening in Australia for quite some time? Your location states you are from Australia but I suspect you do not live here.

marty wrote:Davidhare, are you in Australia or France because the film is not opening in Australia for quite some time? Your location states you are from Australia but I suspect you do not live here.

Or maybe he lives in Australia and is just travelling to another country... and maybe that country is called France.

I could watch Fanny Ardant slap Bob Hoskins all day.

Andre Jurieu wrote:Or maybe he lives in Australia and is just travelling to another country... and maybe that country is called France.

I think he's still in Paris!

matt wrote:I could watch Fanny Ardant slap Bob Hoskins all day.

That's not really a fair fight.

Official website: http://www.parisjetaime-lefilm.com/

New poster:



And plans for two follow-ups (set in Tokyo and New York):

http://www.allocine.fr/article/ficheart ... e=18384765

...but still no US release date.

Dylan wrote:Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrqtxogmME

The film looks cute, and interesting, and fun. It probably won't receive a wide release in the US.

It's been picked up by First Look Pictures for US distribution (the same people who handled The Proposition), so all the major city centres should get it at least.

IMDB says April 2007 for the US

This movie was a complete disappointment for me, starting with one of the most heavy-handed PC message in years (the piece about the girl with the tchador) followed by a number of unfocused and ununvolving mini stories. Only the segment with Gazzara & Rowlands is above the mess (but with the very bad idea of having Depardieu in a café owner cameo).

The last short, by Payne, is the only treasure: a wonderful, funny and very moving segment that can justify the price of the admission ticket alone. I will never forget the lonely walk & talk of that american tourist in the streets of XIVe arrondissement & Parc Montsouris. A devastating ending to otherwise dispensable film.

Tom Peeping wrote:This movie was a complete disappointment for me, starting with one of the most heavy-handed PC message in years (the piece about the girl with the tchador) followed by a number of unfocused and ununvolving mini stories. Only the segment with Gazzara & Rowlands is above the mess (but with the very bad idea of having Depardieu in a café owner cameo).

The last short, by Payne, is the only treasure: a wonderful, funny and very moving segment that can justify the price of the admission ticket alone. I will never forget the lonely walk & talk of that american tourist in the streets of XIVe arrondissement & Parc Montsouris. A devastating ending to otherwise dispensable film.

For the most part, I agree. There are some amusing segments done by the Coens and Van Sant, but most of this is disappointing. I also had high hopes for the Assayas segment, but it was rather tame. I also agree that the Payne segment was the best.

I'm going to join the crowd here but I can't call it a disappointment only because these compilation films are always terrible. Even when they have one or two good segments they're still half-assed efforts. The only purpose these type of films serve is networking.

I'm going to add, however, that here none of the pieces make the price of admission worthwhile. Nothing was terrible--except for maybe the vampire one, and Chadha's was a little too cutesy--but for the most part they hovered about average. Van Sant's, Craven's and Twyker's were ok but they all centred around rather lame jokes. The Coens' was amusing but they're usually among the few people that put me into hysterics and I expect no less. The most I can say about Payne's is that it was cute. Nothing got off the ground but the idea of the film was nice, anyway. I can still fault people for getting involved with this project but I'll not call any of them whores.

davidhare wrote:Wes Craven's ep is whimsical but the Twyker, the Assayas and the van Sant, not to mention the Nobuhiro Suwa "Place les Victoires" (with Binoche and Dafoe) are not MEANT to be laff-a-minuters, but considered, thoughtful and formally intriguing (which these all are.)

What I mean is the three I listed have a central lame joke each. The twist ending bits.

First, the three I mentioned were Van Sant, Twyker and Craven.

The "bittersweet" endings were weak whether or not you picked up on the comedic aspects and, really, I'm not saying I disliked them, I'm saying they're nothing special.

Agreed. I certainly didn't put my whole ass behind my argument. Select segments might have shined more if I wasn't aware that they do everything they did here better in their feature length films. A lot of people excel when working within rigid restrictions--I loved The Five Obstructions--but there was no shining here. I'm glad if you got more out of it than I did but I think people are best served by keeping their expectations low.

2-disc R3 is now available. Reading this thread leaves me debating whether or not I actually care to pick this up... I do have a voucher from CD-Wow, but it could theoretically be used on something better!

Latino Review scored a look at the North American poster for the film. I'm assuming it will be rolled out in arthouses this year.

Saw it and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Van Sant and Doyle episodes are the standouts.

First Look is opening this on May 4 in NYC and May 18 in LA.

Oh great. First Look's North American "distribution" never tends to move much beyond NY, LA and a few other markets. It looks I'll have to rent this on DVD.

Crap! I'm going to miss it by just a month and a half! Gotta get to LA... QUICK!