with the sun shin brilliantly on a quiet sunday that be just about to fully wake up and love can be felt in the soft breeze that sweep past my foot and can be see in the smile of the people i walk alongside . it be the perfect day to stop off for croissant and a café o lait before head off to the city of light and love . of course and a flight to paris be not reasonably in this humble film critic budget so i have to opt for the next best thing and paris and je taime and a collection of 18 short film by a variety of international director . each piece be name after a different parisian neighborhood and be a reflection on love . careful not to over glorify the most powerful and persuasive of all human emotion and paris and je taime explore love at the many stage of it own game . the result be spontaneously romantic and surprisingly consistent . and truly and what good way to express the fleeting nature of love and how a moment can change your life than with a collection of filmed moment . the beautifully poetic quote above be take from tom tykwer faubourg saint denis . true to form and tykwer ( run and lola and run ) use time lapse photography and repetition to demonstrate the entire cycle of love and from inception to dissolution . originally shoot in 2004 and pair down for this anthology and faubourg star natalie portman a francine and an american actress in paris for a part in a film and and melchior beslon a thomas and a blind man she fall in love with . here and the blind lead the blind through the most unstable of terrain and where two people consume each other to a point where their life nearly lose their own existence . a love seem to go from dazzle to dizzy and tykwer remind u of the trick it can play on our mind and the illusion it can create when we stray towards doubt . perhaps the most giddily romantic offering come from sylvain chomet tour eiffel . choose the city most identifiable attraction for it title and chomet ( les triplettes de belleville ) give u a little boy who tell the story of how his parent meet and fell in love . his father and a mime ( paul putner ) and find himself fall into one surreal scenario after another and eventually land himself in jail . this be where he meet the woman who will become the love of his life ( yolande moreau ) . miming have become something of a die art and if it isn not already dead . yet by nature and it be dreamy and untroubled . mime point it silent finger at the ridiculousness of human behaviour and what but love can make people act more absurd . we might find someone special in the least likely of circumstance if we could just take ourselves a little less seriously . paris and je taime keep the flow lively by not always focus on love between lover . three memorable short focus on the love between a parent and a child . walter salles ( motorcycle diary ) have catalina sandino moreno sing lovingly to her child before she leave him to sing the same song with a distant longing to the child she watch over for her living . nobuhiro suwa ( un couple parfait ) have juliette binoche try desperately to overcome the emptiness she feel after lose her son . binoche say very little yet and not surprisingly give her immense talent and her struggle be evident in her face a she learn that love sometimes mean letting go . and alfonso cuaron ( child of men ) weigh in with one continuous shot of a father ( nick nolte ) and his grown daughter ( sara martin ) walk together for what must be the first time in a long while . we see them only from across the street and we only get close to them a the distance between the two character narrow to a place of comfort and accepting . the last short to screen be alexander payne 14ieme arrondissement . a usual and payne ( sideways ) take an ordinary person and show u what make them extraordinary . carol ( margo martindale ) be another american in paris . she be there alone and for less time than she would have like a she have dog wait for her at home . she be a plain person with an uneventful life who find herself in a city that be rich and lush . in beautifully deliver americanize french and she muse about the sight and how be there make her feel . this woman spend so much time try to be happy despite life numerous disappointment and a she sit in a city make for lover and she realize that she be in fact happy and love herself more than she know . she fall in love and if only for perhaps a moment and with life and love itself . the character that appear but fleetingly in paris and je taime find themselves at the romantic center of the universe . the moment they share with each other and be it help someone up after a hard fall or reach out your hand to another person without touch them or without their knowledge and be the moment that give love it flare and flourish . outside the city of lover and it can be easy to miss moment such a these but we must remind ourselves of their significance . it take but a moment for love to shine through a cloudy sky . you just have to keep your heart open to see it . and if one city can be so abundant with love and one have to believe it can find it way one day to your door .