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Published: 28 June 2007

Barbet Schroeder and Li Xin in Christopher Doyle’s Porte de Choisy – one of the Paris, Je T’Aime pieces

Stories of the Paris districts get a bit lost

PARIS, JE T’AIME
Directed by Various, Including Wes CravenCertificate 15

IT must have seemed such a good idea. Take a dozen arrondissements of Paris. Find 12 directors, and invite them to create a short film to be shot on location in the district of their choice.
Add a load of household names, and what do you get? The answer is: a bit of a mess.
Imaginative, certainly. But the result is like a skeleton where the bones don’t quite fit into each other. So the disjointed venture finds such luminaries as Bob Hoskins playing sexy mind games with an old flame (Fanny Ardant) in the Pigalle, Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara arguing over the spoils of their pending divorce in the Latin Quarter, and Rufus Sewell and Emily Mortimer having a tiff in the creepy Pere-Lachaise cemetery (this episode directed by horror merchant Wes Craven).
Keep an eye out for the likes of Nick Nolte, Miranda Richardson, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche, Gerard Depardieu and Marianne Faithfull, because star-spotting is the only real deal this hotch-potch of a movie has to offer.

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