Brazilian director of The Motorcycle Diaries.
Paris, Je T'aime (2006) -- Directed with
Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin,
Gurinder Chadha,
Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen,
Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet,
Wes Craven, Alfonso
Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu,
Christopher Doyle,
Richard LaGravenese,
Vincenzo Natali,
Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès,
Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa,
Daniela Thomas, Tom
Tykwer, Gus Van Sant. Eighteen
five-minute shorts set in (and named after) different areas of Paris, all
created by different directors. Most of directors apparently don't know
how to deal with the short form and use the same pacing as a feature-length
movie, not telling any real story in the process or setting us up for a story
that we'll never get to see. The ones that stand out to me are the films
by the Coen Brothers (which actually use some kinetic camerawork to wake us up),
Christopher Doyle (another wake up), Alexander Payne (which is a mix of
offensive and almost-touching), and Sylvain Chomet (with a mime). The rest
are either average or make you say "Well, at least it was short." (See
individual directors for a review of their short.)
Loin du 16ème (2006) -- Directed with
Daniela Thomas. From Paris, Je T'aime, an annoying little
short about a nanny who must leave her own baby to take care of a rich woman's
all day long. Primarily annoying because we have to hear the nanny sing a
repetitive French song about three times in five minutes.
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