New York, I Love You (2008)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 60
Like many anthologies, New York, I Love You has problems of consistency, but it isn't without its moments.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 15
Like many anthologies, New York, I Love You has problems of consistency, but it isn't without its moments.
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Some of the world's most-respected directors align forces to pay tribute to the city of the New York in this unconventional omnibus sister film to 2006's Paris, Je T'Aime. Broken into short segments, New York, I Love You is comprised of ten films, most choosing to take a down-to-earth approach to the stories of the countless lives lived in the city on a given day. The segments are as follows, chronologically: Segment 1 -- Directed by Jiang Wen; written by Hu Hong and Meng Yao; starring Hayden
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Cast
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Hayden Christensen
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Andy Garcia
Garry (Jiang Wen segmen... -
Rachel Bilson
Molly (Jiang Wen segmen... -
Natalie Portman
Rifka (Mira Nair segmen... -
Irfan Khan
Mansukhbhai (Mira Nair ... -
Orlando Bloom
David (Shunji Iwai segm... -
Christina Ricci
Camille (Shunji Iwai se... -
Maggie Q
Call Girl (Yvan Attal s... -
Ethan Hawke
Writer (Yvan Attal segm... -
Chris Cooper
Alex (Yvan Attal segmen... -
Robin Wright
Anna (Yvan Attal segmen... -
Anton Yelchin
Boy (Brett Ratner segme... -
James Caan
Mr. Riccoli (Brett Ratn... -
Olivia Thirlby
Actress (Brett Ratner s... -
Blake Lively
Ex-Girlfriend (Brett Ra... -
Drea de Matteo
Lydia (Allen Hughes seg... -
Bradley Cooper
Gus (Allen Hughes segme... -
Julie Christie
Isabelle (Shekhar Kapur... -
John Hurt
Bellhop (Shekhar Kapur ... -
Shia LaBeouf
Jacob (Shekhar Kapur se... -
Taylor Geare
Teya (Natalie Portman s... -
Carlos Acosta
Dante (Natalie Portman ... -
Jacinda Barrett
Maggie (Natalie Portman... -
Ugur Yücel
Painter (Fatih Akin seg... -
Qi Shu
Chinese Herbalist (Fati... -
Burt Young
Landlord (Fatih Akin se... -
Eli Wallach
Abe (Joshua Marston seg... -
Cloris Leachman
Mitzie (Joshua Marston ... -
Emilie Ohana
Zoe the Video Artist (R... -
Eva Amurri
Sarah (Randy Balsmeyer ... -
Justin Bartha
Hall Powell (Randy Bals...
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While many of the segments amuse, and rarely wear out their welcome (the average running time is eight minutes apiece), it rapidly becomes apparent that each of them has some kind of twist, like an O Henry short story.
Top CriticIt's a bit too arty, and a bit too cute, but it charms and cajoles with the pluck of a native New Yorker.
The project is lush and seductive as a whole, though some segments are especially vibrant.
The film only feels like two or three different sort of approaches are represented. They don't really feel like widely different attacks on the material.
The characters are all more or less useless, inhabiting the frivolous tippy-top of Maslow's pyramid of needs, with little sense that there's anyone essential at the bottom. It's fun, but decadent.
Where's the ethnic diversity? The cultural overflow? The dirt, the chaos, the cramped quarters, the people who look like us, rather than movie stars?
How easily you'll weather the film depends on your taste for poetic, obtuse cinema, often without too much of a rhyme or reason.
A variety of wry, sentimental, mildly erotic tales that come over as pieces O Henry might have submitted to Playboy.
The cinematography and editing is superb and makes up for any shortfalls with some of the stories, but the film's obvious draw will be its stellar ensemble cast.
If you've got a heart of treacle, an attention span of 15 minutes and can't afford the air fare then there are worse ways to spend a couple of hours.
Let's just stay friends.
This sequel to the superior Paris Je T'Aime is pleasant but inconsequential.
Is New York I Love You meant to be a love-letter to the Big Apple? As far as I could tell, it was a seething satire about the city's sleazy, vapid, self-involved stereotypes.
In truth, alas, it's the film itself that's short of ideas.
As with Paris, Je T'Aime (it's from the same producer, Emmanuel Benbihy), the sheer diversity of this portmanteau movie is both a curse and a blessing.
As with Paris, Je T'Aime, New York, I Love You works as both romance film and seductive travelogue, but some will find its 'arty' posturing more maddening than magical.
Even though each segment is rather wonderful in its own way, as a whole this feels like a side of New York that we've perhaps already seen on screen.
Director-ensemble films are never fantastic but New York, I Love You does have a few moments worth savouring.
If nothing else, it brilliantly captures the moods and tempo of New York: its vibrant pulse, its energy, its ethnic diversity, its clamorous excitement.
How can so many good directors -- Fatih Akin and Sheker Kapur among them -- miscalculate here?
Audience Reviews for New York, I Love You
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- David (Shunji Iwai segment): Does this mean we're getting married?
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- Camille (Shunji Iwai segment): Hey, David, it's Camille. You know, when Dostoevsky was writing The Gambler, he signed a contract with his publisher saying that he would finish it in twenty-six days, and he did it, but he had the help of this young stenographer. This girl, she... she stayed with him and she helped him. And... afterwards they actually got married. Ha, isn't that cool? That's how he met his wife. Anyway I found this story in the preface for Crime and Punishment so I was thinking that... and, this would have to be between you and me, but... I was thinking that I could read the books and tell you what's going on and that way you could just focus on your music. But only if you're comfortable with this, and if you're not then you can just forget it, and you can quit, but if you are... then open this door.
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