Paris Je T'aime

Paris, je t'aime (2006) is an anthology about love you can watch online on iFILM. Eighteen short films, roughly one per arrondissement of the French capital, each handed to a different filmmaker.

The directors include the Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuaron, Wes Craven, Tom Tykwer and Alexander Payne. The cast is just as crowded: Natalie Portman, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ben Gazzara. The moods swing hard. A mime courts a co-worker in a graveyard. A husband arrives to ask for a divorce, only to learn his wife is terminally ill. Love here is young, fading, imagined, lost, all of it squeezed into five-minute pieces.

Producers Emmanuel Benbihy and Claudie Ossard built the film as a declaration to the city told through twenty directorial voices. The result is a mosaic in which Paris stops being a postcard and becomes the one character shared by all eighteen stories. Stream Paris, je t'aime (2006) online on iFILM.