New York, I love you.

New York, I Love You is well, exactly like its Parisian counterpart in form. It consists eleven short film and directed by different director, each of the film's eleven directors were given a set of rules – they must confine their story to a single neighbourhood and it must deal with a ‘love encounter’ and they must wrap their shoot in two days in New York City. 

There are some interesting conceptual tags in this; it’s a pseudo-sophisticated filmmaker’s conceit that assumes that everyone has they’re own movie idea of New York. Unsurprisingly the stories vary in quality, from the ludicrous, to the mundane, to the really solid. Some of the stories feel more like a scene from something bigger, others feel like they were edited drastically down to fit the film

This segment is about a teenage boy is stood up by his prom date and his sympathetic pharmacist (James Caan) sets up him last minute with his daughter, who it turns out is in a wheelchair.  When they run into his ex (Blake Lively), she lies and tells the ex that the boy is taking her because of the Make A Wish Foundation.  

I love the part when they have sex in Central Park, to fulfill his wish for prom night. After that when he drops her back at her home, she steps out of her wheelchair and turns out she's actually a method actress and studying being wheelchair bound.

This segment is about a retired opera singer checks into a hotel and planning to commit suicide.  But, she bumped into a melancholy Russian bellboy .  He interrupts her as she is planning to jump, and when he goes to close the window, falls to his death.  The hotel manager looks out the balcony where the body should be and tells her there is nothing there.  She asks him to close the window. I didn't get this story at all. I can appreciate its qualities, but it's too ambiguous. Also, because it mostly takes place in a classy hotel, it felt detached from the rest of the film, which makes it almost as misplaced as the other segment. Though, is surprisingly good and very subtle.

And this is my favourite segment, it's about an old couple celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary, talking a walk at a slower pace than the city around them. It's a very simple story, but a great little piece that'll put a smile on your face.

There are enough good moments in "New York, I Love You" to cancel out the bad ones, and those moments are spread out fairly evenly across the film, so it's an easy watch. Maybe, this film just wants to show us all the little things that we usually miss in our life.