Made up of 18 shorts inspired by 18 Paris arrondissements [districts], the film speaks of romantic encounters taking place in various spots of the capital. Each short, running five minutes, bears the hallmark of great international filmmakers, and sometimes Cannes regulars, such as Gus Van Sant, Walter Salles, the Coen brothers, Alfonso Cuaron, Denis Podalydès, Wes Craven and Gérard Depardieu. In the credits of this atypical collective film, celebrating both love and the art of cinema, appear the names of actors as prestigious as Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands, Elijah Wood, Ben Gazzara, Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi and Catherine Deneuve.
In the words of producer Claudie Ossard, on the origin of the project Paris, je t'aime: "Each director had to tell the story of a romantic encounter in one of Paris' arrondissements in under five minutes, and on a relatively tight budget. None of the directors felt limited in any way, despite the specs being so precise. I was curious to see Paris through the eyes of foreign directors. We Parisians know the city all too well, and are blinded by force of habit to a lot of things going on around us. I was convinced that these filmmakers drawn from all four corners of the globe would make us look at Paris afresh."
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