Synopsis
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
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Credits
Directors (6)
Actors (18)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : Les Films du Cyprès, Les Films du Losange
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Losange
- French distribution : Les Films du Losange
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriters : Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, Jean Rouch
- Directors of Photography : Nestor Almendros, Étienne Becker, Alain Levent, Jean Rabier, Albert Maysles
- Editors : Jackie Raynal, Dominique Villain, Jean-Daniel Pollet
- Sound recordists : René Levert, Bernard Ortion
- Producer : Barbet Schroeder
- Associate Producer : Patrick Bauchau
- Camera operators : Georges Keller, Patrice Wyers
- Production Assistants : Pascal Aubier, Pierre-Richard Bré, Pierre Cottrell, Fred De Graff, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff, José Varela
- Continuity supervisor : Éliane Bonneau
- Directors of Photography : Georges Keller, Patrice Wyers
- Artistic directors : Éliane Bonneau, Andrée Perraud
- Narrator : Éric Rohmer
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Anthology film, Drama, Comedy, Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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About
All the short films that make up this portmanteau film were shot on 16mm, thereby allowing for smaller production crews. Paradoxically this film, which wanted to be a manifesto of the New Wave, corresponds to the end of the latter as an organized movement. It was planned that, subsequent to this film, each of the contributing filmmakers make a feature within the same framework. These films were to be produced by Les Films du Losange, the company founded by Eric Rohmer and directed by Barbet Shroeder. But history decided otherwise.