Zazie - Pariisin päiviä

Original title: Zazie dans le métro

1960
K-8
1h 33m

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6.9/10

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Catherine Demongeot in Zazie - Pariisin päiviä (1960)

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Comedy Fantasy

With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little... Read allWith her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

6.5K

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Catherine Demongeot and Philippe Noiret in Zazie - Pariisin päiviä (1960)

Louis Malle in Hissillä mestauslavalle (1958)

Vittorio Caprioli and Catherine Demongeot in Zazie - Pariisin päiviä (1960)

Philippe Noiret in Zazie - Pariisin päiviä (1960)

Carla Marlier and Philippe Noiret in Zazie - Pariisin päiviä (1960)

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Trivia
To accomplish the scene in which Zazie and Uncle Gabriel walk down the street while the rest of Paris zips by at hyper speed, Louis Malle had his cinematographer under-crank the movie camera, allowing only 12 frames of film to pass through the camera each second. The typical speed is 24 frames per second. Then, he had Zazie and Uncle Gabriel walk in slow motion while the people in the background walked at a regular pace. Then, when the film is projected at the usual speed of 24 frames per second, the stars appear to be walking at a normal rate while the people in the background appear to be be zipping by.

Goofs
When the policeman is harassing the sexy blonde lady with the blue dress, the crew is visible on the windows of one of the cars passing by.

Quotes
Zazie: What's a hormosessual?
Albertine: A man who wears blue jeans.
Zazie: You're spoofing me.

Connections
Edited into Le Paris de Zazie (2005)

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A joyous romp. French "Joie de vivre", at it's very best.

Great cinema, with a wonderful exuberance and style. Louis Malle showed his great talent and versatility in this romp of cheeky comedy. Blessed with a Zazie that (for me ) captures the essence of the character originally created by Raymond Queneau, this is a 60's French film that continues to bring naive pleasure to those to whom it is a memory of the renaissance of French cinema in the early 60's, and (hopefully) will still retain a few inspirational moments for those see this movie thirty years on and who have had the benefit of later comedic directors who learned from this well-crafted and thoroughly entertaining movie.

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