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91Anthology films usually work better in theory than execution, but this feature parade of shorts is a blithe, worldly, and enchanting exception.
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91Even if you don't like the stories, the filmmakers seem incapable of finding a corner of Paris that is not photogenic.
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88The masterpiece of the bunch is the last, wonderful piece by Alexander Payne ("14eme Arrondissement").
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83The best episodes have the emotional resonance of full-length features, and yet I didn't want them to be a moment longer than they are.
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80Splendid.
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80Love is here in all of its many guises, brought together with a touch of subtitled sophistication.
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78Eighteen short films by an international who's-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.
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75One of the chief pleasures of Paris, Je T'aime -- is seeing how each filmmaker adheres to their assignment of making a movie about love in Paris but still comes up with a distinctly personal work that bears their artistic sensibilities.
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75Bittersweet, funny, sad and invariably romantic.
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75The result is that after two hours one gets the sense of having seen a panorama of human experience, of having witnessed a moment of time in all its true fullness.
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75As is always the case with compilation films, some segments are far better than others. But they're all so brief that the least of them passes quickly and the best are small miracles of economical storytelling.
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75The stories run a gamut of emotions: melancholy, bittersweet, provocative, witty, poignant, silly and fanciful.
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70Paris Je T'Aime has something going for it that not every movie can claim: It always has Paris.
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70Paris, je t'aime builds into something quite wonderful.
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67Because Paris, Je T'Aime's episodes are so short, the duds don't stick around long enough to grate much. But the good ones also don't get to explore their assigned Parisian spaces as much as they could.
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63It is possible to bring substance, as well as poetry, to the vignette form, but more often Paris, Je T'Aime is merely mundane.
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63As an ad for the city's charms, Paris couldn't have asked for a more sweetly jaundiced love letter.
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63I love the City of Light as much as any starry-eyed provincial, but Paris, je t'aime tries even my considerable patience.
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60Being in Paris is to be inside a work of art, and it is no surprise that in the charming collection of vignettes that make up Paris je t'aime, the art is love.
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60A cinematic tasting menu consisting entirely of amuse-bouches. After two hours of such tidbits the palate is sated. But if there is no need for a main course, you still leave feeling vaguely disappointed at not being served one.
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60Even when one of the pieces stutters, stammers or just lies deathly still, we are consoled by our knowledge that it will not trifle with us for very long. And by the fact that there is an excellent likelihood that it will soon be replaced by something more engaging.
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60The real pleasure is in having a film that is like a box of assorted chocolates: you have the power to approve or not as you move through the variety, even though the bits are picked for you.
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50Too many cooks spoil the broth, and too many directors spoil the anthology film Paris Je T'aime.
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50The concept here holds more promise than the execution.
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Paris, Je T'aime's brimming declaration of love to the City of Lights leaves one breathless but dissatisfied.
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50Uneven but quite pleasant as a two-hour experience that acknowledges the idealized Paris people carry in their heads while wisely veering off the beaten track.
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50Most features composed of sketches by different filmmakers are wildly uneven. This one is consistently mediocre or slightly better, albeit pleasant and watchable. It helps that none of the episodes runs longer than five or six minutes.
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