Paris je t'aime: a love in every neighborhood

Someone once said that Paris was an old whore that you'd better not fall in love with, but both love and fascination with the City of Lights seem to know no limits, and sooner or later, they end up imposing themselves as an inevitable law.
The French capital has always been considered the city of love, and perhaps that was the trigger that led almost a dozen directors from around the globe – and from the most varied cultures – to get behind the camera lens and from there offer viewers around the world their particular visions about one of the most contradictory and necessary feelings of the human condition.

Paris je t'aime is basically about love, but not love understood as the feeling of uniting a man and a woman in the form of a couple, but love assumed as the amalgam that unites, sustains, intertwines and defines most human relationships.

That is why, as the stories unfold, the film speaks of lonely men who find their loved one in the face of adversity, of young people who rethink their rebellion by taking risks for intercultural loves, of artists who experience it in a way that is unconventional according to society's moral standards, of tourists who are used as bait for some couples to renew their vows, of mothers who suffer the loss of their children, of husbands who, even knowing that love is over, decide to continue with it to the bitter end, of parents and children who experience it and feed off it in a fraternal way, of women who wander through life trying to discover it someday, of beings who, dragged by a hostile destiny, cling to it as a possible way to achieve happiness, of marriages that strive to safeguard it and of others that don't even attempt to save it.

Considered one of the most ambitious projects of recent times, this film brings together not only a good number of the most distinguished filmmakers in current cinematography (Sylvaine Chaumet, Gerard Depardieu, Olivier Schmitt, Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Olivier Assayas, The Coen brothers, Isabel Coixet, Alexander Payne, Gus Van Sant and Wes Craven) but also summoned one of the most interesting casts ever seen in another project of the same magnitude.

Paris je t'aime is an interesting collective exhibition, a mosaic of stories that use love in its most universal aspect to reveal the true identity of the feeling, which is none other than the ability to manifest itself in the most varied ways.