Paris vu Par...

Plot

A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Rouch's "Gare du Nord" is a haunting twist-of-fate tale involving a suicidal handsome stranger (Gilles Queant). Written and directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet, "Rue Saint-Denis" unites an experienced prostitute (Micheline Dax) with a garrulous customer (Claude Melki). "Place de l'Etoile," a Chekhovian guilt trip involving salesman Jean-Michael Rouziere and shabby, supposedly dead street person Marcel Gallon, was Eric Rohmer's contribution. Jean-Luc Godard's "Montparnasse-Levallois," photography by American documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, finds Joanne Shimkus in an imaginary menage a trois. Six in Paris is topped off by Claude Chabrol's "La Muette," wherein a family man (played by Chabrol himself) comes to grief when he purchases a pair of earplugs. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Micheline Dax - Prostitute
• Claude Chabrol - Husband
• Stéphane Audran - Wife
• Nadine Ballot - Odile
• Barbara Wilkin - Katherine
• Jean-Francois Chappey - Jean
• Jean-Michel Rouziere - Jean-Marc
• Joanna Shimkus - Monica

Philippe Hiquilly - Roger; Serge Davri - Ivan; Claude Melki - Leon; Marcel Gallon - Victim; Gilles Queant - Stranger; Barbet Schroeder - Jean-Pierre; Jean-Pierre Andréani - Raymond; Gilles Chusseau - Boy; Dany Saril - Maid

Credit

Eliane Bonneau - Art Director, Claude Chabrol - Director, Jean Douchet - Director, Jean-Luc Godard - Director, Jean-Daniel Pollet - Director, Eric Rohmer - Director, Jean Rouch - Director, Jackie Raynal - Editor, Néstor Almendros - Cinematographer, Étienne Becker - Cinematographer, Alain Levent - Cinematographer, Albert Maysles - Cinematographer, Jean Rabier - Cinematographer, Barbet Schroeder - Producer, Claude Chabrol - Screenwriter, Jean Douchet - Screenwriter, Jean-Luc Godard - Screenwriter, Jean-Daniel Pollet - Screenwriter, Eric Rohmer - Screenwriter, Jean Rouch - Screenwriter, Georges Keller - Screenwriter

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