Paris gesehen von… (1965)

Paris gesehen von…: Directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Éric Rohmer, Jean Rouch. With Jean-Pierre Andréani, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot, Claude Chabrol. 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 (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.

“Hereu0026#39;s a chance to see a set of simply produced, very accessible little films by masters of the New Wave era. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEach story is mildly outlandish, but the storytelling is superb, and the human responses that are the focus of each story hold your attention and manage to build empathy despite the shortness of each segment.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEven though each story centers around a conflict of some sort, thereu0026#39;s a genuine sweetness to the way situations are handled. And seeing the stories unfold against the backdrop of 1960u0026#39;s Paris adds an extra visual element to make these films viewer-friendly and, modest as these films are, memorable.”