“New York, I Love You” is a American romantic comedy-drama anthology consisting eleven short film and directed by different director in 2009.The short films all relate in some way to the subject of love, and are set among the five boroughs of New York City. The film is a sequel of sorts to the 2006 film "Paris, je t'aime", which had the same structure, and is the second film in the Cities of Love franchise, created and produced by Emmanuel Benbihy.

I like the movie a lot because you can make some nice discoveries among the stories. The shooting of the stories are no more than two days and editing just one week, connected by transitions shot by one more director. The results are, well, formulaic, hobbled by weak dialogue and absent any sense of texture. It's not one of those films where all the separate characters come together at the end in a miraculous coincidence, although a few people do turn up, still as themselves, in one another's segments. Besides, the strong cast is really the key point of this movie. Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Shia LeBeouf, Bradley Cooper, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Carlos Acosta and other world famous actor or actress really made the movie became classic.

Not all the stories in the film are good but some of them are very good. One of the story I like the most is the story about the old female opera singer and the handicapped hotel bellboy. A retired opera singer (Julie Christie) checks into a hotel, planning to commit suicide. She is befriended by a melancholy Russian bellboy (Shia LaBeouf). He interrupts her as she is planning to jump, and when he goes to close the window, falls to his death. The hotel manager (John Hurt) looks out the balcony where the body should be and tells her there is nothing there. She asks him to close the window. In my point of view, she comes back to the hotel in New York that she used to stay as she miss the time when she was here. She is no longer famous now and lonely, she is regrets of something.

Another story that I like the most is the story between the old painter (Uğur Yücel) and the Chinese girl who works as a herbal shop assistant (Shu Qi). The old painter keeps painting the portrait of the young shop girl. He eventually asks her if she would sit for him, but she says no. Later that day she sneaks out from her job to go see him, but he has died. As she leaves his apartment, she finds one of the paintings he did of her and takes it home. I can learn from the story that everything in New York city changes so fast, every little decision could change your life. As the girl, if she agrees to let the painter paints her portrait, it could be a chance to make her famous and change her life. In the other hand, the painter may get famous if he can done the portrait of the girl before he died. But the most important point is that the girl still face it with her smile at the end of the story.

The story about the old couple is also one of my favourite part of the movie. Abe (Eli Wallach) and Mitzie (Cloris Leachman) celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary, taking a walk to Coney Island at a slower pace than the city around them. This story is very funny, the dialogue between the old couple and their acting. On their 63rd wedding anniversary, they decide to talk a walk to the place that I believe it is the place they first met. They bickering along the journey to the place, but at the end, "the kiss" shows the love.

I like "New York, I Love You" a lot and I think it is the best movie for me among the movies I watched in this class. I would like the watch it again and also the “Paris, je t’aime”.