Some of you may be blown away at my multi-lingualness and you very well should be, because I just wrote some French at you. New York, I Love You is the sister film to 2006's Paris, je t'aime which translates into Paris, I Love You. Creative, I know. The premise behind both these films is that they are a series of short vignettes, each directed by a different director, each about a different kind of love, each in a different part of the city. I personally think it is a really cool premise.
New York is a little different from Paris in that Paris's stories never really intertwined and some of New York's did. It is also different in that we were told who was directed what in Paris but not in New York. Paris had a couple of fantastical scenes, where as New York really only had one-ish. I like both of these movies equally for different reasons.
New York stars many big name actors. Some playing roles that are very atypical for them, some not. If you want to see a movie with tons of big names, that doesn't suck, as I've heard but don't know first hand about Valentine's Day, then you'd like this one. Some of the big names include in no particular order, Bradley Cooper, Shia Le Beouf, Natalie Portman, James Caan, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Christina Ricci, Blake Lively, Orlando Bloom, Anton Yelchin, Ethan Hawke, Drea De Matteo, Maggie Q., Robin Wright Penn, Chris Cooper, Cloris Leachmen, John Hurt, and more and more.
I like this movie because it is like watching a bunch of tiny little movies because each is it's own interesting story, and each is filmed in its own special way. Characters in one story appear briefly in other stories. Character's from two different stories interact in transition between the various scenes.
This film doesn't have a end goal. The stories and characters don't combine into one final resolution. It is a film that just contains different stories about different love in an amazing city. The stories range from a story about a boy (strangely) losing his virginity to a manny and his charge to a husband and wife in love to a lonely, aging star and a bell hop. They are very different but all very intriguing. I do however recommend that everyone see this movie. It's not going to blow your socks off, but I think you will feel a little bit more cultured, maybe a little bit happier after you see this. This is more on the movies-are-an-art-form side of the spectrum than the movies-are-just-for-entertainment side, but it is still quite entertaining. Rent this one, pour some red wine, get cozy with your honey, and enjoy the show. Or rent this one, be like Timmy and open a Natty Light, and enjoy the show. Regardless, rent this one.
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