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數不盡的摩天大樓，看不完的車水馬龍，這里便是不可思議的紐約。懷揣各種夢想的人們，來自不同地域，處于不同境遇，他們巧遇在街頭的小酒館，邂逅在街角的路燈下，因為好奇而交談，因為寂寞而吸引，在那個充滿巧合的城市，演澤著別樣的風情與不同浪漫。
本片由12個小短片混剪而成，是繼《巴黎我愛你》之后的第二部“愛情城市”系列電影。十二位導演用自己獨特的視角重新造訪這座城市，他們用自己獨特的方式展示了對于紐約的原創性看法。制片埃曼紐班畢伊表示此系列電影還將繼續推出，2010年他們的目標鎖定里約熱內盧和上海兩座城市。
Movie Review: New York, I Love You
For my movie review this week, I'm taking a look at a collective cinematic work "New York, I Love You".
Based on the success of "Paris je t'aime" in 2006, movie producer Emmanuel Benbihy continues his "Cities of Love" series. In the latest installment "New York, I Love You", he follows the same format by knitting standalone stories yet putting all of them under one theme of "finding love".
American movie makers seem to have a rage for New York City. Every year countless movies are set in the Big Apple, switching back and forth among the recognizable city landmarks. It is the same with this movie, for which Emmanuel invites 11 world-renowned directors to tell an ensemble of stories that all happened in the city. You can tell this is New York City at the first sight of the movie.
But even if "New York, I Love You" contains as many as 11 tales with the New York street scenes throughout, it's still unable to capture the city's pulse or showcase the peculiar and unique aspects of the city, which finally serves the New-York-labeled food tastes as nothing special.
There is no denying that love stories could be quite homogenized in reality: in today's world a white collar worker in Beijing could face the same love problems besetting a London office lady. However, it doesn't mean that movie makers could jump out of a particular cultural context when elaborating a universal theme.
