Six in Paris

DVD - 2008

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).

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Subjects
Genres
Short films
Published
[United States] : New Yorker Video 2008.
Language
French
Other Authors
Jean Douchet (-), Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1936-, Éric Rohmer, 1920-, Jean Luc Godard, 1930-, Claude Chabrol, 1930-2010
Edition
Fullscreen ed
Item Description
Release date: Oct. 21, 2008.
Special features: interviews with Barbet Schroeder, Jackie Ravnal. Albert Maysles, and Richard Brody ; film selections.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (DVD)(93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Production Credits
Photography, Nestor Almendros, Etienne Becker, Alain Levent, Albert Maysles and Jean Rabier ; editor, Jacqueline Raynal ; producer, Barbet Schroeder.
ISBN
9781567304602
  • 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.