paris and je taime be a wondrous cinematic homage to the city of light and the city of love and a film so complex that it almost defy summarization and reviewing . ask a large group of people their impression of life in paris and the result would be something akin to this film . tie together by each of the sector or arrondissement of the city and the film examines love in all form and native folk in their parisian mode and and tourist interact with the great city . approximately twenty writer and director and each with about five minute of screen time and include olivier assayas and the coen brother and sylvain chomet and isabel coixet and wes craven and alfonso cuarón and gérard depardieu and christopher doyle and vincenzo natali and alexander payne and walter salles and nobuhiro suwa and and gus van sant among others less well know . the story vary from hilarious and to humorous and to touch and to tragic and to banal and to tender . in one story a young frenchman ( gaspard ulliel ) be attract to a young lithographer ( elias mcconnell ) and pour out his heart in french to a lad who speak only english . in another a separated husband and wife ( gena rowlands and ben gazzara ) meet in the latin quarter to finalize divorce proceeding while another couple in père lachaise ( emily mortimer and rufus sewell ) approach marriage without connection until the spirit of departed oscar wilde intervenes . steve buscemi in tuileries confronts superstition in a subway with his bag of tourist collection and in bastille sergio castellitto ( in love with mistress leonor watling ) be ready to divorce his wife miranda richardson until she confide she have terminal leukemia and juliette binouche confronts agony about her son fantasy and loss in place de victoires with the help of a mythical cowboy willem defoe and sara martin and nick nolte and ludivine sagnier display a keen tale of mistaken idea in parc monceau and fanny ardant and bob hoskins play out a strange relationship in pigalle and melchior beslon play a young blind man to actress natalie portman in learn how to see in faubourg saint denis and vampire love between elijah wood and olga kurylenko in quartier de la madeleine and maggie gyllenhaal be an ex patriot actress sting out on drug in quartier de enfants rouge and and margo martindale be a visit tourist letter carrier try desperately to speak the french she have study for her life trip in a tenderly hilarious 14ème arrondissement . the final few minute of the film try to tie together a many of the story a feasible and but this only work on superficial level . the film be long and there be no bridge between the many story and a factor that can tire the audience due to lack of time to assimilate all of the action . but it be in the end a richly detail homage to a great city and supply the viewer with many vignette to re visit like a scrapbook of a time in paris . it be a film worth see multiple time . grady harp .