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- Title: Sighting/Siting/Citing the City: The Construction of Paris in Twenty-First Century Cinema (City Overview)
- Author : Post Script
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 296 KB
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Given cinematic conventions of the location of romance, it seems all but inevitable that a television series called Sex and tire City should end its final season in Paris. Indeed, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), newly arrived from her native New York, reasonably contends that it is not her first visit to the capital of France--not, that is, "'if you include the movies." What at first seems merely a casual coincidence may then be equally predictable when, in the last episode of the same season of ER, Dr. John Carter (Noah Wylie) similarly abandons his home in Chicago to join the woman he loves in Paris. Little wonder then that by the time the actor Tom Cruise traveled a few weeks later to what he characterized as "the most romantic country in the world" to propose to the actress Katie Holmes at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, a site equally prominent in both televised romances, their real life drama was widely perceived by the media as just one more performance set in the city of love in the spring of 2005 (qtd. in Reynaert). (1) In a similar turn toward Paris, the American movie industry has in recent years largely abandoned the practice prevalent in the 1980s and early 1990s of filming remakes of French films in order to revitalize an international tradition of making movies set in France and especially in Paris. After what N. T. Binh describes in the most current and comprehensive overview of Paris films to date (Paris au cinema: La Vie revee de de la capitale de Melies a Amelie Poulain) as a "long eclipse" of almost forty years (118), Hollywood released five such films almost simultaneously. Lawrence Kasden's French Kiss, Billy Crystal's Forget Paris, Sydney Pollack's Sabrina, Robert Altman's Pret-a-Porter (Ready to Wear), and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You all appeared between 1994 and 1996. Although these films share the same portrayal of Paris as a cliched signifier of the romantic and the picturesque, still visible, as we have seen, on contemporary television, they also mark the beginning of a broader and much more diverse trend. When Ron Howard's much anticipated The DaVinci Code was released in the spring of 2006, it became the fourteenth English-language film to have used Paris or France as a setting since the beginning of the twenty-first century, having been preceded by Lasse Hallstrom's Chocolat (2000), Paul Demeyer's Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000), Jesse Peretz's The Chateau, Roman Coppola's CQ (2001), Chris Nahon's Kiss of the Dragon (2001), Baz Luhrmann's Moulin rouge (2001), Doug Liman's The Bourne Identity (2002), Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale (2002), Neil Jordan's The Good Thief (2002), Jonathon Demme's The Truth About Charlie (2002), James lvory's Le Divorce (2003), Norman Jewison's The Statement (2003), and Richard Linklater's Before Sunset (2004). (2)
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