Barbara Wilkind, Jean-François Chappey, Jean-Pierre Andréani (in Saint-Germain-des-Près) ; Nadine Ballot, Barbet Schroeder, Gilles Quéant (in Gare du Nord) ; Claude Melki, Micheline Dax (in Rue Saint-Denis) ; Jean-Michel-Rouzière, Marcel Gallon (in Place de l'Etoile) ; Joanna Shimkus, Philippe Hiquily, Serge Davri (in Montparnasse & Levallois) ; Stéphane Audran, Gilles Chusseau, Claude Chabrol (in La muette). Originally produced in 1965 and released in 1966 by New Yorker Films. Release date: Oct. 21, 2008. Special features: interviews with Barbet Schroeder, Jackie Ravnal. Albert Maysles, and Richard Brody ; film selections.
Contents:
Saint-Germain-des-Près: An American girl in Paris, in love with the myth of the Left Bank, is picked up by two different men who give her the same line / directed by Jean Douchet. Gare du Nord: A young wife, bored wtih her mild, unambitious husband, dreams of wealth and romance. On her way to work she has a chance encounter with a man who offers her everything she has ever wanted / drected by Jean Rouch. Rue Saint-Denis: A battle-fatigued hooker returns to the home of her reluctant customer, a virginal dishwasher, in this droll and touching pas de deux / directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Place de l'Etoile: A timid salesclerk believes he has accidentally murdered a fellow pedestrian. In flight, he has to cope with the madness of traffic in Paris / directed by Eric Rohmer. Montparnasse and Levallois: A woman fears she has mixed up letters to her two boyfriends, one a modern sculptor and the other a garage mechanic / directed by Jean-Luc Godard. La muette: Fed up with his bourgeois parents' endless bickering, a young boy decides to exclude them from his life by means of earplugs, with ghoulish consequences / directed by Claude Chabrol.
Summary:
Six directors release six vignettes set in different sections of Paris. Includes: Saint-Germain-des-Pres (Douchet); Gare du Nord (Rouch); Rue Saint-Denis (Pollet); Place de l'Etoile (Rhomer); Montparnasse and Levallois (Godard); and La Muette (Chabrol).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.