After its release in France last year,  ”Paris je t’aime” is now available in the UK. It’s a collection of short stories by 18 well-know film directors, each revealing a different view over Love and the city. Together they provide a glimpse of how Love can be lived in so many different ways, and is such an important part of people’s personal histories.

The stories themselves are far removed from the pink syrup stereotypes usually associated with Paris and its supposed romanticism, so instead we are given a window into each character’s emotional lives. It’s a very broad range, and you are bound to identify with a few of them, or maybe remember different moments in your own life.

More than a film about Paris, this is an intensely human film that portrays the rich tapestry of human experience in all its different hues and shades. In this case the whole is certainly much greater than the sum of its parts.

Check it at IMDB Directors: Bruno Podalydes, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuaron, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Wes Craven, Tom Tykwer, Frederic Auburtin & Gerard Depardieu, Alexander Payne