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| Catherine Demongeot | ... | Zazie | |
| Philippe Noiret | ... | Oncle Gabriel | |
| Hubert Deschamps | ... | Turandot | |
| Carla Marlier | ... | Albertine | |
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Annie Fratellini | ... | Mado |
| Vittorio Caprioli | ... | Trouscaillon | |
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Jacques Dufilho | ... | Ferdinand Grédoux |
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Yvonne Clech | ... | Madame Mouaque |
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Odette Piquet | ... | La mère de Zazie |
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Nicolas Bataille | ... | Fédor |
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Antoine Roblot | ... | Charles |
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Marc Doelnitz | ... | M. Coquetti |
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Jacques Gheusi | ... | Le gérant |
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Christine Howard | ||
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Louis Lalanne | ... | L'amant de Jeanne |
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This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Ten-year-old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover. However Zazie escapes her uncle's custody and sets out to explore Paris on her own. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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This has to be seen to be believed! Malle seems just as well to be the victim of Zazie's dark whirlwind surrealism as the audience themselves. Never again achieved an adolescent movie character such an anarchic quality. Despite all the displays of technical outrageousness and pure buffoonery, the pic never feels as superficially sketch-like as many of Dick Lester's works. And the complete lack of warmheartedness is a relief in a picture featuring a young girl!
Now that's a truly original way to declass French bourgeoisie and throw an anti-Fascist pie in their faces! And it's one of the few hommages to silent comedy (amongst sundry allusions to cinema and social topics) that really work. And it's one of Malle's best.
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