Paris Vu Par ...
(Six in Paris)
Screening on Film
Directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Jean Rouch, Eric Rohmer.
With Stéphane Audran, Claude Melki, Joanna Shimkus.
France, 1965, 16mm, color, 95 min.
French with English subtitles.
With Stéphane Audran, Claude Melki, Joanna Shimkus.
France, 1965, 16mm, color, 95 min.
French with English subtitles.
This entertaining anthology is comprised of six vignettes directed by six directors of the French New Wave, with each episode situated in a different section of Paris. Saint Germain des Prés (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation, and prostitution; Place d’Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; while La Muette (Chabrol) revolves around a bourgeois family and earplugs. Together, they form a delicious smorgasbord of short offerings that pay tribute to the city that inspired the New Wave generation.
