New York, I Love You (2009)

Note Générale:

7,4/10   

Réalisateurs:

Fatih Akin
Yvan Attal

Scénaristes:

Emmanuel Benbihy (concept)
Tristan Carné (premise)

Date de sortie:

16 octobre 2009 (Spain)

Genre:

Drame | Romance

Accroche:

every moment another story begins

Intrigue:

An anthology film joining several love stories set in one of the most loved cities of the world, New York.

Plot Keywords:

Love | New York | Anthology | Place Name In Title | Omnibus

Récompenses:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

definition of a tune-in-tune-out movie

US Showtimes:

Culver Plaza Theatres

12:05pm | 4:10 | 8:10

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Ensemble

Bradley Cooper	...	Gus (segment "Allen Hughes")
Shia LaBeouf	...	Jacob (segment "Shekhar Kapur")
Blake Lively	...	Girlfriend (segment "Brett Ratner")
Natalie Portman	...	Rifka (segment "Mira Nair")
Christina Ricci	...	Camille (segment "Shunji Iwai")
Eva Amurri	...	Sarah (Transitions)
Robin Wright Penn	...	Anna (segment "Yvan Attal")
Hayden Christensen	...	Ben (segment "Jiang Wen")
Orlando Bloom	...	David (segment "Shunji Iwai")
Ethan Hawke	...	Writer (segment "Yvan Attal")
Chris Cooper	...	Alex (segment "Yvan Attal")
Rachel Bilson	...	Molly (segment "Jiang Wen")
Justin Bartha	...	Sarah's Boyfriend (Transitions)
Anton Yelchin	...	Boy in the Park (segment "Brett Ratner")
John Hurt	...	Waiter (segment "Shekhar Kapur")
Olivia Thirlby	...	Actress (segment "Brett Ratner")
Cloris Leachman	...	Mitzie (segment "Joshua Marston")
Drea de Matteo	...	Lydia (segment "Allen Hughes")
Maggie Q	...	Call Girl (segment "Yvan Attal")
Andy Garcia	...	Garry (segment "Jiang Wen")
James Caan	...	Mr. Riccoli (segment "Brett Ratner")
Eli Wallach	...	Abe (segment "Joshua Marston")
Julie Christie	...	Isabelle (segment "Shekhar Kapur")
Jacinda Barrett	...	Maggie
Burt Young	...	Landlord (segment "Fatih Akin")
Irrfan Khan	...	Mansuhkhbai (segment "Mira Nair")
Emilie Ohana	...	Zoe - the Video Artist
Ugur Yücel	...	Painter (segment "Fatih Akin")
Sinsu Co	...	Mystery Bar Girl (segment "Jiang Wen")
Taylor Geare	...	Teya (segment "Natalie Portman")
Ashley Klein	...	Prom girl (segment "Brett Ratner")
Eliezer Meyer	...	Grand Rabbi Elli (segment "Mira Nair")
Cesar De León	...	Dominican (segment "Natalie Portman")
Jordann Beal	...	Prom girl (segment "Brett Ratner")
Richard Chang	...	Mr. Su (Transitions)
Amy Raudenbush	...	Mom #1 (segment "Natalie Portman")
Carlos Acosta	...	Dante (segment "Natalie Portman")
Gurdeep Singh	...	Badal (Transitions)
Gary Cherkassky	...	Skater Punk (segment "Joshua Marston")
Juri Henley-Cohn	...	Ali (Transitions)
Vedant Gokhale	...	Cab Driver (Transitions)
Robert d Scott	...	Du-Rag (Transitions)
Adam Moreno	...	DJ Blue (segment "Brett Ratner")
Jeff Chena	...	Bartender (segment "Jiang Wen")
Loukas Papas	...	Pizza Patron - Transitions
Eddie D'vir	...	Rabbi (segment "Mira Nair")
Andy Karl	...	Evan (Transitions)
Simon Dasher	...	Guitarist (Transitions)
Aron Charach	...	Young Hasid (segment "Mira Nair")
Himad Beg	...	Indian Man (Transitions)
Brad Naprixas	...	Hassid in Wedding (segment "Mira Nair")
Adam S. Phillips	...	Jogger - Transitions
Duane Nakia Cooper	...	Haitian Cab Driver - Transitions

Autre(s) titre(s):

New York, je t'aime (France) (literal title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language and sexual content.

Durée:

103 min

Pays:

France | USA

Langue:

Anglais | Russe | Yiddish

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,85 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

USA:R (certificate #45093) | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12

Lieux de tournage:

New York City, New York, USA

Société:

Vivendi Entertainment

Anecdotes:

In March 2008, Abraham Karpen, a 25-year-old member of the insular Williamsburg, New York, Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox Jewish) community, dropped out of filming on the orders of his community's rabbis. Karpen had been playing the role of the husband of Natalie Portman's character. Their segment had most probably already been shot, since Natalie's site contains a photo gallery from two days of shooting (12 and 13 March 2008) and the filming was supposed to take two days. Abraham's face is now closed with a picture of Keira Knightley's face in the photo gallery.

Connexions:

figure dans "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2009-10-17)" (2009)

definition of a tune-in-tune-out movie

New York, I Love You, or rather should-be-titled Manhattan, I Love Looking At Your People In Sometimes Love, is a precise example of the difference between telling a story and telling a situation. Case in point, look at two of the segments in the film, one where Ethan Hawke lights a cigarette for a woman on a street and proceeds to chat her up with obnoxious sexy-talk, and another with Orlando Bloom trying to score a movie with an incredulous demand from his director to read two Dostoyevsky books. While the latter isn't a great story by any stretch, it's at least something that has a beginning, middle and end, as the composer tries to score, gets Dostoyevky dumped in his lap, and in the end gets some help (and maybe something more) from a girl he's been talking to as a liaison between him and the director. The Ethan Hawke scene, however, is like nothing, and feels like it, like a fluke added in or directed by a filmmaker phoning it in (or, for that matter, Hawke with a combo of Before Sunrise and Reality Bites).

What's irksome about the film overall is seeing the few stories that do work really well go up against the one or two possible 'stories' and then the rest of the situations that unfold that are made to connect or overlap with one another (i.e. bits involving Bradley Cooper, Drea DeMatteo, Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia, James Caan, Natalie Portman, etc). It's not even so much that the film- set practically always in *Manhattan* and not the New York of Queens or Staten Island or the Bronx (not even, say, Harlem or Washington Heights)- lacks a good deal of diversity, since there is some. It's the lack of imagination that one found in spades, for better or worse, in Paris J'taime. It's mostly got little to do with New York, except for passing references, and at its worst (the Julie Christie/Shia LaBeouf segment) it's incomprehensible on a level that is appalling.

So, basically, wait for TV, and do your best to dip in and out of the film - in, that is, for three scenes: the aforementioned Bloom/Christina Ricci segment which is charming; the Brett Ratner directed segment (yes, X-Men 3 Brett Ratner) with a very funny story of a teen taking a girl in a wheelchair to the prom only to come upon a great big twist; and Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman as an adorable quite old couple walking along in Brooklyn on their 67th wedding anniversary. Everything else can be missed, even Natalie Portman's directorial debut, and the return of a Hughes brother (only one, Allan) to the screen. A mixed bag is putting it lightly: it's like having to search through a bag of mixed nuts full of crappy peanuts to find the few almonds left.