i saw
Paris, je t'aime today, essentially 18 shorts about love in Paris. not the hippest thing to watch for your birthday, but [censored] it. i don't care
the weakest:
the mime section (although the kid is good)
Christopher Doyle's segment, which was just stupid and i don't know what the hell he was trying to do
Alfonso Cuaron's segment with Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier...all one shot, but not really for a good reason. it really felt like he didn't know what he wanted and just threw something together last minute
the vampire segment with Elijah Wood, although that isn't Wood's fault.
the conversation afterward:
me: was it just me, or did the vampire segment feel more like Vienna?
my friend Matt: I thought it looked like a bad Coke commercial
the better ones:
The Coen Brothers, starring Steve Buscemi
Tom Tykwer's segment with Natalie Portman and a blind guy
Alexander Payne's segment
the one with the red jacket (see poster)
the one with Bob Hoskins
the one with the Arab(?) girl
and others i can't remember b/c we went drinking afterward.
generally worth seeing. the beauty of something like this is even if the part you're currently seeing sucks, it'll be over soon.
oddly enough, very few of them felt like French films, which sort of makes sense, b/c most of the filmmakers aren't French, but i thought more would go for the French style