Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Anna (segment "Yvan Attal")
- (as Robin Wright Penn)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe various filmmakers were asked to adhere to three guidelines: They had only twenty-four hours to shoot, a week to edit, and needed to give the sense of a particular neighborhood.
- GoofsThe photo of Molly that Ben shoves into the mailbox is wallet-size (it was in the stolen wallet), maybe 3" long, judging by the size of his hand holding it. However, when he passes the mailbox later, the photo that pops out is at least an 8 x10" (judging by the size of a standard USPS mailbox) when the frame is frozen. Then, when he picks it up, it is almost 6" long, as big as his entire hand, and more suitable to a frame on a desk. The same photo is three different sizes. Is the mailbox magical?
- Quotes
Camille: Hey, David, it's Camille. You know, when Dostoevsky was writing The Gambler, he signed a contract with his publisher saying that he would finish it in twenty-six days, and he did it, but he had the help of this young stenographer. This girl, she... she stayed with him and she helped him. And... afterwards they actually got married. Ha, isn't that cool? That's how he met his wife. Anyway I found this story in the preface for Crime and Punishment so I was thinking that... and, this would have to be between you and me, but... I was thinking that I could read the books and tell you what's going on and that way you could just focus on your music. But only if you're comfortable with this, and if you're not then you can just forget it, and you can quit, but if you are... then open this door.
David: Open... this door?
[crawls to his front door and opens it]
Camille: Okay, a deal's a deal.
David: Does this mean we're getting married?
Camille: I have a lot of reading to do...
Camille: Hi, I'm Camille.
David: Hi, I'm David.
- Crazy creditsThe last segment segues into scenes from the film, viewed as if projected on parts of buildings. After, the end credits begin, accompanied by stills, both of the characters and behind the scenes.
- Alternate versionsWhen the title was shown at Toronto Film Festival it included two additional segments These Vagabond Shoes (2009) and Apocrypha (2009), these were removed for the wide release but are included in the DVD extras.
- ConnectionsEdited into These Vagabond Shoes (2009)
- SoundtracksNo Surprises
(1997)
Performed by Radiohead
Courtesy of Parlophone Records
Under License from EMI Music Group
Written by Jonny Greenwood (as Greenwood), Colin Greenwood (as Greenwood), Ed O'Brien (as O'Brien),
Phil Selway (as Selway), Thom Yorke (as Yorke)
Published by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
With a couple of key exceptions, the film appears to be more of a valentine to Lower Manhattan. Consequently, there is a fashionably edgy look to the short stories. Israeli-born French director Yvan Attal epitomizes this feeling in two episodes. The first deals with an aggressively talkative writer (an irritating Ethan Hawke) throwing a barrage of romantic and sexual overtures at a sleek Asian woman who appears to have heard it all (Maggie Q). The other is marginally better, focusing on a chance conversation outside a restaurant between a woman taking a cigarette break (an effortlessly sexy Robin Wright Penn) and a man intrigued by her emotional availability (Chris Cooper). Both have O. Henry-type twist endings that make them ultimately entertaining.
A couple of other entries feel more gimmicky by comparison. Brett Ratner's mostly comic entry features Anton Yelchin as a naïve high-school student and Olivia Thirlby as his unexpected prom date with James Caan as her pushy pharmacist father. Mira Nair directed a flat culture-clash encounter between two savvy souls - a Hassid woman about to marry (Natalie Portman) and a Jain diamond dealer (Irrfan Khan) - who become mutually intrigued by their price negotiation meeting. Other episodes feel even more cursory. Portman wrote and directed a brief episode focused on an ebullient toddler (Taylor Geare) and her father (Carlos Acosta) having fun together in Central Park, highlighted by a brief dance performance from Acosta at the end (he is a Cuban-born principal dancer for the Royal Ballet). Chinese director Jiang Wen led Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia and Rachel Bilson on an empty roundelay of deception and humiliation among thieves at a bar.
Japanese director Shunji Iwai was at the helm of a slight episode featuring Orlando Bloom as a frantic musician working against deadline, while Turkish director Faith Akin shares a brief story of obsession with Uğur Yücel as a solitary artist who wants to paint the face of a local Chinese herbalist (Shu Qi). The entry from Allen Hughes (of the Hughes Brothers) consists mostly of a continuing voice-over of two regretful lovers (Bradley Cooper, Drea de Matteo) hesitant to follow up on their passionate one-night stand. The oddest, most dispiriting entry comes from Shekhar Kapur who directed a script from the late Anthony Minghella (to whom the film is dedicated). It stars Julie Christie as a guest returning to a posh Fifth Avenue hotel where she bonds with a palsied, Slovak-accented bellboy played by an overly sensitive Shia LaBeouf. The nature of their relationship is never really divulged, but it ends on a surreal note of little consequence.
Directed and written by Joshua Marston, the best episode is perhaps the least ambitious as it features Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman as an aged, bickering couple on their way to the boardwalk in Coney Island for their 63rd anniversary. The reassuring way she places her head on his shoulder is easily the most touching moment in the film. All in all, this stylish hodgepodge will appeal mostly to those who are drawn to the short story format. Benoît Debie's sharp cinematography at least brings a consistent sheen to the film as it tethers the various story lines to a New York that feels mired in a cinematic fantasy. I just think Woody Allen's "Manhattan" executes on the same approach far more effectively. The extras on the 2010 DVD include a handful of additional scenes (though not the two deleted segments directed by Scarlett Johansson and Andrei Zvyagintsev), interviews with five of the directors and the original theatrical trailer.
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- Also known as
- New York, Anh Yêu Em
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- $14,700,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,588,015
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $380,605
- Oct 18, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $9,961,023
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1