Eeee, welcome to the fandom ♥ I'm glad that you liked it.
There isn't any crossover in terms of recycling actors or the characters knowing one another from scene to scene. The only time they intrude into one another's movies/'verses is as a transition; at the end of Le Marais we see Elie turn the corner a few times and once he's out of his arrondissement — the 4th — and into the next — the 1st —, it's a different director's movie with different actors and a singular, different plot, just as the short before it led from the 5th into the 4th. So yeah, that's it for them.
Each short feels extremely different, as you would expect, but not just for the reasons you might expect! Yes the different actors and directors and scripts make it different, but the whole point of Paris is to have shorts that personify the arrondissement that it's taking place in.
So in the same way that you might have a favorite part of the city and others that you don't really care for, each short plays into that part of your psyche. Le Marais is such a beautiful part of Paris with such an amazing history for Jewish people, LGBT* people, Chinese (and other asian) immigrants & French-Chinese people, and just those who are into art, and it shows in Le Marais regardless of if a person notices it or not.
There's a reason Le Marais was the one with the same-sex couple, that it was set in a print shop, that their love story was so romanticized and star-crossed and poetic, that both of them were artists, etc. and why those things wouldn't have felt as well-suited to any other short/arrondissement. The setting is half as important as everything else in combined, but it's so subtle that you don't have to know anything about Paris or it's history to pick up on it/feel it. There's just a ~vibe~ about the whole situation that makes you buy into Gaspard's earnestness, because maybe that sort of instant, all-encompassing love that the great artists of yesteryear always went on about actually does exist. It could very well have come off as over the top or purple-prose-y, but the vibe in Le Marais makes it work.
Each section conveys what's going on in that particular arrondissement — what the background characters look like, what the main characters themselves are doing, the backdrop in terms of setting — and I think it plays as much a part on influencing how you react to a short as much as the actor(resses)/plot do.
ANYWAY SORRY FOR THIS TL;DR /o\ I hope it answered your question, kind anon ( ; ___ ; ) I do enjoy the rest of the movie, but I'm not particularly fannish about any of the other sections? Tour Eiffel is probably my second favorite short, because my goodness does it do any amazing job of capturing the whimsy and magicalness of that area, just as much as Le Marais does for it's own, and since it's an area I like, I'm digging what it accomplished.
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Eeee, welcome to the fandom ♥ I'm glad that you liked it.
There isn't any crossover in terms of recycling actors or the characters knowing one another from scene to scene. The only time they intrude into one another's movies/'verses is as a transition; at the end of Le Marais we see Elie turn the corner a few times and once he's out of his arrondissement — the 4th — and into the next — the 1st —, it's a different director's movie with different actors and a singular, different plot, just as the short before it led from the 5th into the 4th. So yeah, that's it for them.
Each short feels extremely different, as you would expect, but not just for the reasons you might expect! Yes the different actors and directors and scripts make it different, but the whole point of Paris is to have shorts that personify the arrondissement that it's taking place in.
So in the same way that you might have a favorite part of the city and others that you don't really care for, each short plays into that part of your psyche. Le Marais is such a beautiful part of Paris with such an amazing history for Jewish people, LGBT* people, Chinese (and other asian) immigrants & French-Chinese people, and just those who are into art, and it shows in Le Marais regardless of if a person notices it or not.
There's a reason Le Marais was the one with the same-sex couple, that it was set in a print shop, that their love story was so romanticized and star-crossed and poetic, that both of them were artists, etc. and why those things wouldn't have felt as well-suited to any other short/arrondissement. The setting is half as important as everything else in combined, but it's so subtle that you don't have to know anything about Paris or it's history to pick up on it/feel it. There's just a ~vibe~ about the whole situation that makes you buy into Gaspard's earnestness, because maybe that sort of instant, all-encompassing love that the great artists of yesteryear always went on about actually does exist. It could very well have come off as over the top or purple-prose-y, but the vibe in Le Marais makes it work.
Each section conveys what's going on in that particular arrondissement — what the background characters look like, what the main characters themselves are doing, the backdrop in terms of setting — and I think it plays as much a part on influencing how you react to a short as much as the actor(resses)/plot do.
ANYWAY SORRY FOR THIS TL;DR /o\ I hope it answered your question, kind anon ( ; ___ ; ) I do enjoy the rest of the movie, but I'm not particularly fannish about any of the other sections? Tour Eiffel is probably my second favorite short, because my goodness does it do any amazing job of capturing the whimsy and magicalness of that area, just as much as Le Marais does for it's own, and since it's an area I like, I'm digging what it accomplished.