Paris vu par... (1965)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Directors:

Claude Chabrol
Jean Douchet
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Writers:

Claude Chabrol (segment)
Jean Douchet (segment)
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Release Date:

19 May 1965 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch)...

Plot Keywords:

Place Name In Title | City Name In Title | Paris France | Montparnasse Paris | Anthology

Cast

Jean-Pierre Andréani	...	Raymond (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
Stéphane Audran	...	The mother (segment "La Muette")
Nadine Ballot	...	Odile (segment "Gare du Nord")
Claude Chabrol	...	The father (segment "La Muette")
Jean-François Chappey	...	Jean (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
Gilles Chusseau	...	Boy (segment "La Muette")
Serge Davri	...	Ivan (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Micheline Dax	...	Prostitute (segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
Marcel Gallon	...	Victim (segment "Place de l'Etoile")
Philippe Hiquilly	...	Roger (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Claude Melki	...	Leon (segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
Gilles Quéant	...	Stranger (segment "Gare du Nord")
Jean-Michel Rouzière	...	Jean-Marc (segment "Place de l'Etoile")
Dany Saril	...	The maid (segment "La Muette")
Barbet Schroeder	...	Jean-Pierre (segment "Gare du Nord")
Joanna Shimkus	...	Monica (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Barbara Wilkin	...	Katherine (segment "Saint Germain-des-Prés")
Georges Bez	...	(segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)
Jean Douchet	...	A client (segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)
Sarah Georges-Picot	...	(segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)
Maya Josse	...	Woman in the metro (segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)
Philippe Sollers	...	A client (segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)

Directed by
Claude Chabrol		(segment "Muette, La")
Jean Douchet		(segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
Jean-Luc Godard		(segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Jean-Daniel Pollet		(segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
Eric Rohmer		(segment "Place de l'Étoile")
Jean Rouch		(segment "Gare du Nord")

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Claude Chabrol		segment "La Muette"
Jean Douchet		segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés"
Jean-Luc Godard		segment "Montparnasse-Levallois"
Georges Keller		dialogue (segment "Saint Germain-des-Prés")
Jean-Daniel Pollet		segment "Rue Saint-Denis"
Eric Rohmer		segment "Place de l'Etoile"
Jean Rouch		segment "Gare du Nord"

Produced by
Patrick Bauchau	....	associate producer
Barbet Schroeder	....	producer

Cinematography by
Néstor Almendros		(segments "Saint Germain-des-Prés" and "Place de l'Etoile")
Étienne Becker		(segments "Gare du Nord" and "Place de l'Etoile")
Alain Levent		(segment "Rue Saint Denis")
Albert Maysles		(segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Jean Rabier

Film Editing by
Jackie Raynal		(as Jacqueline Raynal)
Dominique Villain		(segment "Gare du Nord")

Art Direction by
Éliane Bonneau		(segment "La muette")
Andrée Perraud		(segment "Saint Germain-des-Prés")

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Néstor Almendros	....	assistant director (segment "La Muette")

Sound Department
René Levert	....	sound engineer (segment "Montparnasse-Levallois")
Bernard Ortion	....	sound engineer (segment "Gare du Nord")

Camera and Electrical Department
Georges Keller	....	camera operator (segment "Saint Germain-des-Prés")
Patrice Wyers	....	camera operator (segment "Gare du Nord")

Other crew
Pascal Aubier	....	production assistant
Éliane Bonneau	....	script supervisor (segment "La Muette")
Pierre-Richard Bré	....	production assistant
Pierre Cottrell	....	production assistant
Alfred de Graff	....	production assistant (as Fred de Graaf)
Stéphane Tchalgadjieff	....	production assistant
José Varela	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Les Filmes du Cyprès
• Les Films du Losange

Distributors

• Guerilla Films (UK)
• Kinokuniya (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
• New Yorker Films (1969) (USA) (subtitled)
• Sodireg

Also Known As:

Six in Paris

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Les Filmes du Cyprès

Trivia:

Jean-Luc Godard's segment "Montparnasse et Levallois" originated from the news story that Alfred Lubitsch (Jean-Paul Belmondo) told Angela (Anna Karina) in a restaurant in Une femme est une femme (1961).

Movie Connections:

Followed by Paris vu par... vingt ans après (1984)

Good short New-Wave films, very poetic and meaningful

Except for the idiotic Godard segment which just plain sucks, all the other directors did a hell of a job shooting these 16mm short films. In the best tradition of the French New-Wave, most of the films come as close to documentary as possible. The American girl (Barbara Wilkins) in Jean Douchet's little film about American girls who get taken for a ride by French playboys, is just wonderful in her role and perfectly portrays many nuances that have never been captured on film. Douchet was a critic at Cahiers du Cinema who wrote one of the greatest analyses of Hitchcock ever. Documentary master Jean Rouch, one of the godfathers of the New Wave is represented next in a spectacularly authentic and resonant segment that's one long continuous take for about 15 minutes straight, following its protagonist (another wonderfully authentic young girl, this time French) from the breakfast table argument with her boyfriend (producer/director Barbet Schroeder in an early role) into the street where she meets a mysterious man who wants her to go away with him. A wonderfully hilarious 10 minute segment by Jean Daniel Pollet features Michelline Dax playing the experienced Parisian prostitute to perfection as she affectionately makes fun of her inexperienced john who looks like a French version of Buster Keaton. Rohmer's piece is about a salesman/former runner who gets into an altercation with a drunk man on the street and thinks he might have accidentally killed him; it is very different from anything else Rohmer has ever done and, needless to say, quietly masterful. In Chabrol's interesting and typically Hitchcockish 'horror-under-the-prim-bourgeois-surface' expose piece Chabrol himself acts as the 'bourgeois' father and his then-wife Stephane Audran as the mother of a mischievous boy who starts putting ear-plugs in his ears to keep from hearing their constant arguments. Overall, there's a lot of decent stuff here for attentive viewers and French New Wave fans.