New York, I love you, US-released in October 2009, is finally ready to overthrow Belgian film theaters in February 2010 with this feast of collaboration and storytelling.

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This already is the second production of the I Love You-sequence project, featuring some of today’s most imaginative filmmakers (such as Emmanuel Benbihy of Paris je t’aime and Marina Grasic of Crash) and an all-star cast (including Orlando Bloom, Natalie Portman, Ethan Hawke and Bradley Cooper amongst many, many others), each one of them shooting their own vision on New York’s five boroughs.
The romance film is a collective work of eleven short stories, knitted down together through the joint story line of ‘finding love’. As the producer of Paris, je t’aime this time focused on the metropolis of New York, we move along the great city line and concrete jungle in ways of a tribute to the big city “where dreams are made of”, as Alicia Keys earlier last year sang to us. The city has been immortalized on screen in hundreds of different ways and thousands of movies as well as television programmes. With this movie nonetheless, we have a new, fresh and romantic window of love into the city: love in all its ways and forms, lived through by the cities inhabitants and visitors in the search of a romantic fantasy, such as the prom girl in a wheelchair that has a surprise for her date, after having spent an unexpected night in Central Park. The fantasy slowly unravels with the artist meeting his muse in Chinatown, the whore being serenaded by an unknowing interested amateur and the Jewish girl imagining a life and marriage with her Indian-bred colleague in the Diamond District, turning the purchase of this gem into an intercultural fantasy. Meanwhile at an Upper East Side hotel, a mysterious high guest and bellboy travel back into time, while during the trip in taxi and metro toward the Village, a couple meets again after what they think would only have been a one-night stand. In Tribeca, a pickpocket tries to win the heart of a bereaved girl he followed, and the film concludes in Brooklyn, where a life-long couple evolves on a momentary bliss of Coney Island, not without being interrupted by the living and fizzing New York buzz.
Although the online review aggregator “Rotten Tomatoes” reported merely 42 percents of the film reviews as positive, with an average score of 6/10, the movie appeared us to be a wonderful insight into the turbulent and lived through (love) lives of New Yorkers. Flirtatious, amusing and revealing encounters disentangle beneath this Manhattan skyline, being as varying and diversified as the city of New York itself. We are, as it is, definitely looking forward to the next productions of this I love-sequence, and are almost unable to wait until 2011, year of release of pre-productions Shanghai, I love you, Jerusalem, I Love You and Rio, Eu Te Amo. |