Paris

About Paris

Paris is a 2003 American thriller film written and directed by Ramin Niami. Original music for this film was composed by John Cale, who had previously worked with Niami on his 1998 film Somewhere in the City.

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Cast

Chad Allen as Jason Bartok

Bai Ling as Linda / Shen Li

James Russo as Leon King

Irene Bedard as Sandy

James Lew as Mr. Fue

Karen Black as Chantelle

Ron Jeremy as Bartender

Biff Yeager as Bill Baker

Valarie Pettiford as Terry

François Chau as Mr. Kim

Nancye Ferguson as Brenda

Belinda Waymouth as Tina

Jeni Chua as Mieko

E.J. Callahan as Motel Owner

John Snyder as Car Salesman

Karen Robson as Receptionist

Terry Camilleri as Poker Player

Ramin Niami as Gunman

Jason David Frank as Chad

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Notable quotes

“Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.”
— Les Etourdis, Act I., Sc. II. — (Daiglemoni).
“Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.”
— Jean Chrétien, My Years As Prime Minister (2007) Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007, ISBN 978-0-676-97900-8 Chapter Fourteen, Vive le Canada, p. 406
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."”
— Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast (1964) Epigraph
“In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced.”
— Claude Monet, 1868 letter to from , December 1868; As cited in: Mary Tompkins Lewis (2007) Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. p. 83
“Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.”
— Robert Sheckley, Hunter/Victim (1988), , Chapter 1 (p. 11)
“Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.”
— Émile Zola Paris (1898) Last of Les Trois Villes [The Three Cities] trilogy

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