New York, I Love You

October 16, 2009

Rated: R Runtime: 110 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

This is a followup to the 2006 movie Paris je t’aime, a collection of short stories set in Paris by different directors. This time New York City is the stage, with 11 different directors contributing. So each segment is around 10 minutes or less.

New York, I Love You

Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christiansen, Christina Ricci, Ethan Hawke, John Hurt, James Caan, Chris Cooper, Anton Yelchin, Maggie Q, Julie Christie, Andy Garcia, Cloris Leachman, Eli Wallach, and many other actors appear.

Directors include Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Allen Hughes, and Natalie Portman.

Unlike Paris je t’aime, there’s more of an effort to tie the stories together, with characters from one segment making appearance in another. So the effect is like one of those Crash gumbos. Whether this was necessary is debatable; if there are 8 million stories in the naked city, 11 of them don’t really need to intersect.

Many of the stories seem to involve alienated people meeting cute; outside a restaurant for a smoke break, or intersecting in unusual jobs, leading to a possible romantic or sexual encounter.

It’s kind of like making a meal of appetizers. But, if one story isn’t to your taste, another will be coming along in a few minutes.

Popularity: 57% [?]

Posted by Mack Guffin | Filed Under 3 Stars, Andy Garcia, Anton Yelchin, Chris Cooper, Christina Ricci, Cloris Leachman, Comedy, Drama, Ethan Hawke, Hayden Christensen, James Caan, Maggie Q, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Shia LaBeouf, Theatrical

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2 Responses to “New York, I Love You”

Mack Guffin on October 16th, 2009 5:45 am

Here’s a trailer for New York, I Love You on YouTube.

Apparently the producers are planning similar films for Rio in 2011, Shanghai in later 2011, Jerusalem in 2012, and Mumbai may be under consideration as well.
jadeintheatl on October 16th, 2009 12:39 pm

Yeah, 3 out of 5 is about right. A good date movie.

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Gun Play

Not that kind of New York movie.

Blood & Gore

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Car Chases

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T&A

Drea de Matteo shows some skin with Bradley Cooper, and, in an unrelated segment, there's a sex scene in Central Park that I guarantee you is unlike anything you've seen in a movie before.

Chuckles

Some of the segments are serious, some are played for comedy.