Paris, Je T'aime

[quoll]

What a shame, they have obviously been pinged by someone powerful and the delightful little clip is now no longer available on youtube.

[mcr5137]

Well that just s***s! Dang, why do people have to get so possessive (I don't want to hear about the work, the copyright, etc!) over a little snippit that give so much pleasure to so many? LOL

Michelle

[quoll]

Ah, but the chap put on almost all of the movie in little snippets. It can be downloaded as a torrent if one feels like doing that - but you didnt hear that here.

[pattirose]

Or someone could pm him and ask/beg him to put it up somewhere else.

[quoll]

Bah, after promising us a February release date it has now stretched out to 19 April. Better late than never I guess but I may have downloaded the torrent well before then (or bought the dvd from Amazon.fr (not that my French is up to much!)

[mcr5137]

While in Paris, we went to Pere Lachaise and went immediately to Oscar Wilde's grave! It is indeed covered in lip prints! I could just imagine Rufus and Emily filming there! I kept telling my husband all about it and he finally said, "Can we just go see Jim Morrison's grave now"?

Oh well.........*I* was very excited!
Michelle

[barfleur]

from the Brisbane Times - an interesting piece, including some Wes Craven bits about how he wrote his segment and came to use Oscar Wilde's grave at Pere Lachaise.

Check out the last line, Ozzies!

G
xo

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/film/beyond-the-berets-its-love-drugs-and-vampires/2007/04/12/1175971244434.html?page=2

........The legendary horror director Wes Craven, who made A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream movies, considers Paris one of his favourite cities. He was delighted the 20th arrondissement was still available for filming when he was approached. After all, that's the location of the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery.

Craven decided to go against type with a romantic comedy about a woman, played by Emily Mortimer, who decides impulsively in front of Oscar Wilde's tomb against marrying her fiance, Rufus Sewell. "Nobody has ever given me the chance to do a romantic comedy before this," Craven says.

In the same collaborative spirit that had Craven appear as an extra in Natali's vampire film in the Quartier de la Madeleine, he cast fellow director Alexander Payne as Wilde. It was a whirlwind project. "I wrote it in two hours in Paris during a press tour," Craven says. "We had a few days of pre-production, two days of shooting, three days of post[-production], then I went back on my press tour."

Having once decided against asking a woman to marry him during a cruise on the Seine, Craven says the film became surprisingly personal. It was also more complicated than expected. "I actually wrote three separate scripts," he says. "The first one was about Jim Morrison's grave. Then we found out there was no way to get the clearance from the Jim Morrison estate to use his grave or his name.

"So I quickly wrote one for Edith Piaf. By that time, I'd arrived in Paris and they found out we couldn't use her name or likeness either. So I said, 'Is Oscar Wilde in the public domain?' They said yes. So I said, 'Fine, I'll be right back'."

He found Wilde's grave a remarkable place. "It's covered in kisses. The genitals of the griffin or whatever it is have been knocked off. There were little notes and candles all over it. You felt there was incredible energy - happy devotion from all over the world."

The success of Paris, Je T'aime has led to suggestions of similar films about New York and Tokyo. "If they said it was 'I Love Sydney', I'd do it," Craven says.

[ruthy]

It's a beautiful monument by Jacob Epstein, although some say it's ugly and some puritan did indeed break the rude bits off as some kind of misguided protest. I felt so moved when I went there, so many people go there to visit Jim Morrison's grave but I couldn't give a damn about some f*ckwit who couldn't handle his substances, I just wanted to be near Oscar and left a yellow rose (although no lipstick). Also, for those who don't know, Robert Ross' ashes are buried in the tomb as well.

This would have been an amazingly atmospheric place to film and I'm glad they didn't go with the smack-head. The result is spine-tingling.

[mcr5137]

It is definitely unique! We saw it last month when we were in Paris and spent an afternoon at Pere Lachaise. I couldn't believe all the lip prints! I didn't realize there was vandalism though.........that something had been removed. Interesting! I need to go look at my photos again!

Michelle

[GreenEyesToo]

Wes Craven talking about casting for this:

“I just went after certain actors. Emily I’d worked with before and we needed to do it very quickly, so I just called her up and basically she said, ‘Okay, great.’ Rufus, we kind of had the strictures we couldn’t bring people from the United States. We didn’t have time and there wasn’t a budget for it. They kind of needed to come from Europe so I just said, ‘Who are the leading men that are around that are available?’ His name was mentioned. I had seen some of his work and really liked it and said, ‘Let’s take a chance with him.’ He was probably thinking the same thing about me.”

www.canmag.com/nw/7446-wes-craven-paris-je-taime

[jemima]

soooo big of him to give a non- American actor the part!! The line 'he was probably thinking the same thing about me 'goes some way to redeeming his other comment though! but only part of the way...

[sevensisters]

They didn't have the time or the budget to bring in actors from the US? He couldn't have meant the transportation costs, could he? That would have merely been a drop in the bucket. Was he referring to salaries? Do American actors command higher salaries than European actors? Surely not. (I'm showing my ignorance of film costs here.)

[GreenEyesToo]

I hadn't read what Wes Craven said as an insult, but I can see how it could be interpreted that way - like "I can't have who I really want, so who else is there?"

I'm puzzled that, if he'd seen Rufus's work, he would still think he was taking a chance with him - you'd have thought he'd worked with enough actors to be able to see their potential for different types of role, even if he'd only seen Rufus in period/baddie stuff.

And it's not as if he was risking a massive amount of money, was it?!

[maxx02]

lol!

We're talking about Wes Craven here, not Billy Wilder. He's right, Rufus was the one taking the chance.

At any rate, I think he's just babbling to fill an interview. I wouldn't make too much of any of it.

[lotuspad]

So the movie is opening in New York today, eh? Lucky people!(saying it with a bit of saltiness). teehee I hope it will have a great turn out. I hope it's coming to chi-town soon!!!