The film,”Paris Je T’aime” features every known director and actor in the movie industry. Ok, not actually, but sort of. The collection of love-letter vignettes about and in an around the city of lights was originally based around the 20 municipal boroughs of Paris (arrondissements) – one short film per borough – however, two of the shorts could not be properly integrated into the film, so the final film has 18 shorts.
They are directed by notables like Olivier Assayas (“Demonlover”), the Coen Brothers, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón (“Childen of Men”), Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), Gérard Depardieu, Gus Van Sant, Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”), Christopher Doyle (cinematographer for Wong Kar-Wai‘s “In The Mood For Love“) and seven other foreign, mostly French, directors you’ve never heard of. The full list is here.
The film stars, among 50,000 other actors, Natalie Portman, Steve Buscemi, Elijah Wood, Marianne Faithfull, Juliette Binoche, Catalina Sandino Moreno (“Maria Full of Grace”), Willem Dafoe, Ben Gazzara, Miranda Richardson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Leonor Watling (the gorgeous, gorgeous hottie of “Talk To Her“), director Barbet Schroeder, Nick Nolte, Ludivine Sagnier (“Swimming Pool”), director Alexander Payne, Bob Hoskins, Gérard Depardieu, Gena Rowlands, Rufus Sewell, Emily Mortimer and Olga Kurylenko just to name a few.
The soundtrack features two new cover songs (“La Même Histoire,” “We’re All In The Dance”) by photo-magazine-spread ingénue of the moment, Feist, plus a song from her longtime producer/collaborator Gonzales and Michael Andrews (multi-instrumentalist musician who composed the excellent twinkling electronic score to Miranda July’s “Me And You And Everyone We Know”)
The film had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last September and opens up in New York tomorrow (Friday May 4) in a very limited release and presumably around the rest of the country, shortly.
Download: Feist – “La Même Histoire” [mp3]
Watch: Paris Je T’aime trailer [French version featuring Feist]