| Testimonials:"The most effective entries -- bring both bitter and sweet to their snapshots of this city's most cherished and elusive quality: intimacy." Michelle Orange, Village Voice "Eleven short films exploring love, the ties that bind people together, and the manifold mysteries of human nature." Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice"To see this film is to understand why it is better to have loved and maybe lost, as the cliché goes, than to have missed out on the messy exhilaration of it all." Andrea Chase, Killer Movie Reviews | | Synopsis:New York, I Love You takes the wrinkle-free, easy-travel concept first executed in the 2007 Gallic compilation Paris, je t’aime to a new city and styles itself like a themed issue of The New York Times Magazine. Here, a procession of hip filmmakers (from Allen Hughes to Shekhar Kapur) present intertwined vignettes about love, romance, and/or sex, all starring hip actors (from Ethan Hawke to Julie Christie), each set in a hip neighborhood (from Soho to the Upper West Side, with one outer-borough stop in Brighton Beach).
In this rarefied NYC, every street is beautiful no matter how chaotic (Fatih Akin directs in Chinatown), and every body is beautiful no matter how frail (Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman steal the show as old Brooklynites). Tourists may notice that the film’s New Yorkers are all straight, and mostly white. But they’ll want to sightsee, especially when Bradley Cooper hooks up with Drea de Matteo, Chris Cooper and Robin Wright Penn flirt madly, and, in Brett Ratner’s nicely raunchy sketch, Anton Yelchin gets lucky with a wheelchair-bound Olivia Thirlby. These tales are as highly designed as fashion layouts. But they’re as relaxing to thumb through as those NYT Magazine trend pieces about how chopsticks are the new forks, or how Eva Amurri is the new Christina Ricci – both of whom also wander through this Gotham travelogue.
– Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly | |
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Country: | France, USA | | Language: | English, Russian, Yiddish | | Genre: | Drama, Romance | | Cast: | Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randy Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen | | Directed by: | Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer, Shekhar Kapur , Natalie Portman | | OFRB Rating: | 14A; Coarse Language, Sexual Content | | Runtime: | 103 minutes | | Show Dates: | Not Scheduled | | |
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