Paris je t'aime

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No dialogue, but lots of heavy breathing. </div> <bR> <div> The opening credits call this a "collective" film. It's made up of short stand-alone pieces, each by a different director(s) and each set in a different part of Paris. I like the overall movie a lot more than I was prepared to. There's only one piece I don't particularly care for, which is a pretty good percentage considering how many there are. </div> <div> I'll even say that the short Elijah is in isn't one of my favorites - not that it isn't good. The strength of the movie is its glimpses of moments of human existence, and the best pieces tend to be ones that stay close to the real world, although they might dabble in a bit of surrealism (the one I don't care for is quite surreal). Elijah's is one of three that I'd label fantasy, and although I enjoyed all three of those I didn't feel the emotional power from them that I did from the more realistic pieces. Elijah's acting ability certainly would have been high enough for one of the realistic shorts, but this seems to be something he did more for the fun of it. </div> <div> The movie is mainly in French, with subtitles. But it's not really important that it's Elijah's first foreign language film, because he doesn't say a word (neither do the two other characters in his story). Both Elijah and his leading lady are very good at emoting without words, and the cinematography heightens what they're able to show through their acting. The piece is in black and white, except for blood red where appropriate. If you want a feel for the piece, think of Frodo coming slowly down those stairs in Lothlórien - with Queen Beruthiel waiting at the bottom.  </div> <div> (The movie's R rating is for language, drug use, sexual situations, and violence. None of those are central to the movie, and most of the pieces standing alone wouldn't have the rating. Elijah's probably would, for violence and a sexual situation - and moreso because it brings those two elements together.)</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="4" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="311" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFCCFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF00BF" FRAME="BOX" RULES="COLS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF > <tR> <tD VALIGN=BOTTOM BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 71 WIDTH="142"><div> Available now: Original soundtrack to <I>Paris je t'aime</I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=BOTTOM BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF WIDTH="142"><div> Sign up to be notified by email when <I>Paris je t'aime</I> is available on DVD</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="142"><div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=afewworabo-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000FS9J9A&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF WIDTH="142"><div>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=afewworabo-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00005JPRA&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id105_m.htm" TITLE="Paris je taime"><U><B><IMG SRC="1647d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>