Paris seen by…

Paris seen by… is a French collective film with sketches, left the May 19th 1965.

From one 92 minutes total duration, it joins together court-measurings of six young people Réalisateur S of the New wave: Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Each scenario writer films there a district different of Paris, on an ironic, and even cynical tone.

Six sketches

Saint-Germain of the Meadows

of Jean Douchet
color 18 min

; Synopsis: A young American coed, who follows the courses of drawing of the Jullian Academy, street of the Dragon (VI {{E}}), meets with the Coffee of Flora, Boulevard Saint-Germain an young man of the upper middle classes. He takes it along in his garçonnière of the street of the Seine.

; Card-index: 1st sketch, Saint-Germain-of-Meadows

Realization: Jean Douchet

Joint authors: Jean Douchet, Georges Keller

scenario: Jean Douchet

dialogs: Jean Douchet, Georges Keller

Collaborations: Nestor Almendros

image: Nestor Almendros

Interpretation

* Barbara Wilkind

* Jean-François Chappey

* Jean-Pierre Andréani

Park North

of Jean Rouch
color 16 min

; Synopsis: A young couple lives modestly in the district of the Gare of North (X {{E}}). The young woman, ambitious, dream of a better life. It meets by chance, street of Maubeuge, a young middle-class man who proposes to him to share with it the life of which it dreams.

; Card-index: 2nd sketch, Station of North

Realization: Jean Rouch

Scenario and dialogs: Jean Rouch

Collaborations: Etienne Becker, Bernard Ortion

image: Etienne Becker

sound: Bernard Ortion

Interpretation:

* Nadine Bundle

* Barbet spaniel Schroeder

* Gilles Quéant

Rue Saint-Denis

of Jean-Daniel Pollet
color 12 min

; Synopsis: A timid young man brings a prostitute in his poor hotel room.

; Card-index: 3rd sketch, Street Saint-Denis

Realization: Jean-Daniel Pollet

Joint authors, scenario and dialogs, Jean-Daniel Pollet

Collaborations: Alain Levent

image: Alain Levent

Interpretation:

* Claude Melki

* Micheline Dax

Place de l'Étoile

of Eric Rohmer
color 15 min

; Synopsis: The Place of the Star is not made for the pedestrians. Jean-Marc, salesman in a shirt manufacture of the Victor-Hugo avenue, makes the sad experiment of it.

the principal places of turning are:

* the Place of the Star encumbered by the building site of the RER

* the shirt manufacture of luxury where Jean-Marc

* the Métro at the rush hours works.

; Card-index: 4th sketch, Place of the Star

Realization: Eric Rohmer

Joint authors, scenario and dialogs, Eric Rohmer

Collaborations: Alain Levent, Nestor Almendros

image: Alain Levent, Nestor Almendros

Interpretation:

* Jean-Michel Rouzière

* Marcel Gallon

Montparnasse and Levallois

of Jean-Luc Godard
color 14min

; Synopsis: An young woman sends a letter to each one of her two lovers, one sculptor with Montparnasse (XIV {{E}}), the other carriage-builder with Levallois-Perret (92). But for which is intended the love letter and which must receive the letter of rupture?

; Card-index: 5th sketch, Montparnasse and Levallois

Realization: Jean-Luc GODARD

Joint authors, scenario and dialogs, Jean-Luc Godard

Collaborations: Albert Maysles, Alain Levent, Nestor Almendros, Rene Levert

image: Albert Maysles, Alain Levent, Nestor Almendros

sound: Rene Levert

Interpretation

* Joanna Shimkus

* Philippe Hiquily

* Serge Davri

The Dumb woman

of Claude Chabrol
color 16 min

; Synopsis: A young high-school pupil of the XVI {{E}} district does not support any more the interminable arguments of his parents. He solves the problem thanks to earplugs.

; Card-index: 6th sketch, the Dumb woman

Realization: Claude Chabrol

Joint authors, scenario and dialogs, Claude Chabrol

Collaborations: Jean Rabier, Albert Maysles, Rene Levert

image: Jean Rabier, Albert Maysles

sound: Rene Levert

Interpretation:

* Stephan Audran

* Claude Chabrol

* Gilles Chusseau

Anecdotes

the film was produced by the Films of the Rhombus , company founded by Barbet Schroeder. This last plays a part in the episode Gare of North .
Jean-Luc Godard takes again to the sketch of the tire already treated in a woman is a woman .
On the same principle, Paris seen by… twenty years after left in 1984.
On the same principle (a sketch by district), Paris, I love you left in 2006.

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