New York, I Love You

Fate has always played a mysterious role among people regardless of couple, friends or even strangers. We have always wondered how fate brought 2 total strangers into each other’s life and what kind of wonders fate can offer to someone.

New York I Love You is a movie based on 11 different kinds of love and life stories that happen in New York and each is shoot by different directors. New York, one of the most happening urban cities in the world, millions of people eat, work and live there with different kind of lifestyle and culture are brought together by a thing called fate to meet the right person at the right timing. This movie brought us to know the other side of New York City and the love stories that lies beneath it.

New York I Love You is an anthology films that is casts by famous actors and actresses including Nathalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Orlando Bloom, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Shia Lebeouf and so on. This movie consists different kinds of love stories at different timing, which I personally think that it is more down-to-earth than the other on-screen love stories. Besides that, the directing and editing skills in this movie is pretty interesting as it is a piece of work combining all the director’s creations. Instead of showing a rather draggy storyline, New York I Love You shows only short and simple life moments that happens at the corner of the city.

Abe and Mitzie

As for my favorite pair in this movie would be Abe and Mitzie that is cast by Eli Wallach and ClorisLeachman. This segment is directed by Joshua Marston telling a story about a pair of old couple that took a walk to the seaside during their anniversary. Although the very cute old couple argued about small little things throughout their way to their destination but still, we know it is a type of love and caring that they expressed to each other. This segment taught us to appreciate and value the people around us as it is not easy to have someone to be stand beside us for a very long time. Abe and Mitzie played a really good role in portraying how a pair of couple should cope and accept each other flaws even though if it means a lifetime nagging on their partner.

David and Camille

Another pair that caught my attention in this movie is David and Camille. Orlando Bloom played as David while Christina Ricci starred as Camille and famous Japanese director, Shunji Iwai, directed this short segment. David is an artist that tends to seek for inspiration at all time and Camille is his secretary that he never met before until one day she decides to knock on his door. How strange is fate when it brings you the chance to finally meet someone important in our lives.

I enjoyed the movie overall although I admit that I do feel a bit lost during the movie showing. It is interesting to be exposed to different types of directing styles and movie genres; at least I learned something from it. I look forward to more unique directing styles and movies in the future!

Great experience and learning throughout the semester and ending my last movie review with a poster of the movie, till then!