10 minutes / Color/B&W
French / English subtitles
Release: 1965
Copyright: 1962
Included on 2-disc box set Early Short Films of the French New Wave.
This is a love letter to living in Paris — even on a bitterly cold winter’s day. Interspersed with shots of the city, we hear from Parisians, including a group of boys on the joys of pelting passers-by with snowballs, and a 73-year-old who has lived his whole life in Paris and would not have it any other way. The film is also a beautifully shot meditation on film and memory, built around Chris Marker’s observation that “Nothing is more beautiful than Paris, if not the memory of Paris.”
“Well framed and artfully considered… compelling.” —ZekeFilm