All about love, dating and romance issues.
The rules: No more than two days’ shooting time. One week of editing. An eight-minute time limit. Ten directors, and one more to consider the 10 short films and create transitions. “New York, I Love You” is the second installment in an ambitious project that began with “Paris, Je T’aime” (2006), an anthology with 13 directors. Rio is said to be next.
P.S. I Love You. The title could have been PS I’m a Seriously Creepy Weirdo, and the necrophiliac high concept would work, with just a little tweaking, for a psychological horror film. But this is the movie version of the chick-lit bestseller that turned its 21-year-old author, Cecelia Ahern, daughter of the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, into a publishing sensation.
“True love was overcome by the obstacles facing time, space, and the world, with resistance, although sometimes painful,” says Alain Badiou. So, what makes us think that this victory is possible in the face of the overwhelming time of breaking down any long-term relationship?
Let’s take a look at what Godfrey said. Will it sound familiar from somewhere? “When we are loved, we think we want to feel it. However, the situation is the opposite. It wasn’t rapists or murderers who broke most of us. We are broken by people who love us.