"... le film evenement de la saison". Or, the film-event of the season, as the publicity of the film descrives it. And at least in terms of the people that have colaborated to the realisation of the film, it does seem to be a big event, or the cinematographic version of a jam session at least.
Over 20 directors and scriptwriters and scores of well known actors and actresses have colaborated to create this great jamboree of short stories, of all different sorts, shapes and colors. Well, not all shapes, they all had to fit in the two hours of film, which in the end made that some of the stories were overtly simple, a bit of a cliche. But well done cliches can still be very enjoyable, and many of these stories are. There are all sorts of situations, always revolving around love and Paris. Sometimes classic romantic love, sometimes the sadness of a lost chance, the longing for a deceased loved one, the pain of breaking, the memories of a past love, misunderstandings in the metro of paris, or even the lust for blood and ethernal love.
Not all the short films are of the same quality, or may be it will more accurate to say that not all short films will appeal equally to all audiences (I do personaly reckon that some of the stories could have been dropped and allow some others to be developed in more depth; but of course, i never liked mimes... ;-)). It would be very hard to choose one of the stories, but I specially enjoyed the situation devised by the Coen brothers in 'Tuileries', the interpretation of Juliette Binochein 'Place des Victoires', the story 'Faubourg Saint-Denis' with Nicole Portman and Melchior Beslon, and the story that closes the film, '14eme arrondissement'. I would say, that may be I might not have liked some of the stories on their own, but i did enjoy the film as a whole (even as I was a bit sceptic about it beforehand), and specially I found some of the stories specially moving, or hilarious, or sad... From my point of view, a good film.
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