Prepared to leave his marriage for a much younger lover, Marie Christine, a man named Sergio instead decides to stay with his wife after she reveals a terminal illness - and he rediscovers the love he once felt for her. She then takes an extremely long commute to the home of her wealthy employer (whose face is not seen), where she sings the same lullaby to her employer's baby.ĭoyle, Rain Kathy Li, and Gabrielle Keng PeraltaĪ comedy in which a beauty products salesman makes a call on a Chinatown salon run by a woman who proves to be a tough customer. Steve Buscemi, Axel Kiener, Julie BatailleĪ young immigrant woman sings a Spanish lullaby (" Que Linda Manita") to her baby before leaving it in a daycare. Gaspard Ulliel, Elias McConnell, Marianne FaithfullĪ comedy in which an American tourist waiting at the Tuileries station becomes involved in the conflict between a young couple after he breaks the cardinal rule of avoiding eye contact with people on the Paris Metro. Then a woman passerby faints near his car, and he comes to her aid.Ī young man, hanging out with two friends who taunt women who walk by, strikes up a friendship with a young Muslim woman.Ī young male customer finds himself attracted to a young printshop worker and tries to explain that he believes the man to be his soulmate, not realizing that he speaks little French. Including Benbihy, there were 22 directors involved in the finished film.Ī man parks his car on a Montmartre street and muses about how the women passing by his car all seem to be "taken".
Each arrondissement is followed by a few images of Paris these transition sequences were written by Emmanuel Benbihy and directed by Benbihy with Frédéric Auburtin. Initially, 20 short films representing the 20 arrondissements of Paris were planned, but two of them (the 15th arrondissement, directed by Christoffer Boe, and the 11th arrondissement, by Raphaël Nadjari) were not included in the final film because they could not be properly integrated into it.