Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Paris, je t’aime (French pronunciation: ​[paʁi ʒə tɛm]; Paris, I love you) is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements (districts). The 22 directors include Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Joel and Ethan Coen, Isabel Coixet, Gérard Depardieu, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Nobuhiro Suwa, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Yolande Moreau, and Gus Van Sant.

Initially, 20 short films representing the 20 arrondissements of Paris were planned, but two of them (the 15th arrondissement, directed by Christoffer Boe, and the 11th arrondissement, by Raphaël Nadjari) were not included in the final film because they could not be properly integrated into it. Each arrondissement is followed by a few images of Paris; these transition sequences were written by Emmanuel Benbihy and directed by Benbihy with Frédéric Auburtin. Including Benbihy, there were 22 directors involved in the finished film.

01: “Tuileries” (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

02: “Place des Victoires” (Nobuhiro Suwa)

03: “Quartier des Enfants Rouges” (Olivier Assayas)

04: “Le Marais” (Gus Van Sant)

05: “Quais de Seine” (Gurinder Chadha)

06: “Quartier Latin” (Frédéric Auburtin and Gérard Depardieu)

07: “Tour Eiffel” (Sylvain Chomet)

08: “Quartier de la Madeleine” (Vincenzo Natali)

09: “Pigalle” (Richard LaGravenese)

10: “Faubourg Saint-Denis” (Tom Tykwer)

11: “Bastille” (Isabel Coixet)

12: “Porte de Choisy” (Christopher Doyle)

13: “14e arrondissement” (Alexander Payne)

14: “Loin du 16e” (Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas)

15: “Parc Monceau” (Alfonso Cuarón)

16: “Montmartre” (Bruno Podalydès)

17: “Place des fêtes” (Oliver Schmitz)

18: “Père-Lachaise” (Wes Craven)