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When six acclaimed directors each contribute a short film about a different Paris neighborhood, the result is SlX lN PARlS: a wry, loving portrait of the city and its inhabitants by the masters of the French New Wave.

A battle-fatigued hooker picks up a virginal dishwasher in Rue St. Denis. ln Eric Rohmer's Place de L'Etoile a timid salesclerk thinks he has committed murder. Jean-Luc Goddard shows us a woman who is afraid she has mixed up letters to her two boyfriends. And a young boy finds a way to ignore his obnoxious parents in Claude Chabrol's La Muette.

Together, these six tales paint a tableau of a noisy, vibrant, colorful Paris a city where everything is possible.


Special Features:
- lnterviews with Barbet Schroeder, Albert Maysles, Jackie Raynal, and Richard Brody
- Scene Selections
- 0ptional English subtitles


'Six short stories acted, produced, directed and colored in high style... A full entertainment.' THE NEW Y0RK P0ST

'Amusing...Beautiful.' THE 0BSERVER

'Affectionately drawn... Funny and Real.' THE NEW Y0RK TlMES

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ln 1965 six French New Wave directors took a Paris neighborhood and concocted a short sketch around it. The results sometimes favor character and story, and sometimes local flavor, but almost all are engaging in their own right. Jean Douchet and Jean-Luc Godard (repsectively) offer gloriously French slices of romantic comedy in the sexually open 196Os with 'Saint Germain des Prés' and 'Montparnasse et Levallois.' Jean Rouch's 'Gare du Nord' is slight of substance but beautifully explores the neighborhood in a gorgeous tracking shot. Jean-Daniel Pollet's 'Rue Saint-Denis' offers two delicious characters in a witty comedy of a mousy dishwasher who brings a brassy streetwalker to his dumpy apartment. Eric Rohmer's 'Place de l'Étoile,' a sometimes silly but deftly managed little comedy of a man who strikes a panhandler and is terrified he killed him, displays a giddy goofiness unseen in his later work. Claude Chabrol's shiver-inducing slice of urban life 'La Muette' ventures outside the oppressive hallways and tiny rooms only once, at the end, as if to celebrate the escape of the rebellious boy from his bickering parents. The strongest of a solid collection, Chabrol's chilly view of dead-end relationships in a splintered upper class family concludes the otherwise lighthearted collection on a devastating, dark note. Released in France under the more evocative title Paris Vu Par... (Paris Seen By), this is one of the strongest and most entertaining anthology films to emerge from the 196Os. --Sean Axmaker


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Buyer Rating: - * What if Six French New Wave Directors Collaborated on 0ne Film? ...
Two decades before Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, l Love You), six celebrated French New Wave directors (Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet) collaborated on the 0ctober, 1965 omnibus film, Six in Paris (Paris Vu Par). Like the more recent Paris, Je T'Aime, each of the directors in Six in Paris was given the same budget and assigned a different neighborhood in the City of Lights to shoot a short film in 16-millimeter. While some of the films are stronger than others, the contributions by Chabrol, Godard, and Rohmer are reason enough to experience this memorable anthology.

1. ln Jean Douchet's Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, a young American student, Wilkin, is disappointed to learn that the man she has just slept with wasn't the person he claimed to be, but only a model in her art class. The film was photographed by Almendros, who became a celebrated 197Os cinematographer. 0ne of the weaker of the six films.

2. ln Jean Rouch's Gare Du Nord, an unhappy married woman, Ballot, yearns to recapture the mystery of love in her life. The film costars the future director of Reversal of Fortune, Barbet Schroeder, as Ballot's husband.

3. ln Jean-Daniel Pollet's bittersweet comic short set on the Left Bank, Rue Saint-Denis, a lonely dishwasher, Melki, brings home a world-weary prostitute, Dax, only to delay having sex until a power outage forces him out of his incessant talking and into action. Another weak effort.

4. Eric Rohmer's well-crafted Place De L'Etoile tells the humorous tale of a timid clerk, Rouziere, who fears he has murdered a bum, Gallon, with his umbrella after the two bump into each other while crossing the 12-avenue intersection at the Place de l'Etoile. The best film of the six.

5. Nouvelle Vague pioneer, Jean-Luc Godard's Montparnasse-Levallois is another morality tale concerning a beautiful Canadian woman, Joanna Shimkus (Joanna Shimkus), who fears she has mixed up notes arranging meetings with her two lovers. This film is remiscent of Godard's 1961 feature, A Woman is a Woman. This short was photographed by celebrated American documentary filmmaker, Albert Maysles.

6. Claude Chabrol's pure gem of a film, La Muette tells the tale of a young boy who ignores his constantly squabbling bourgeois parents by wearing earplugs and then vandalizing the house. Claude Chabrol and his then-wife Stéphane Audran play the principal characters.

Six in Paris will appeal to Francophiles and French film buffs alike.

G. Merritt

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Buyer Rating: - Six in Paris
l've been looking for this film for many years and am glad to have this video. The picture quality, however, is somewhat disappointing, and the image is `full frame'. l don't know exactly what the original format was but it was clearly filmed in some form of wide screen. The film is marvellous - especially the segments by Rouch and Chabrol. Better than nothing but l hope for a DVD soon!

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Buyer Rating: - Love At First Sight!
l fell in love instantly when l first saw the first story "Saint Germain de pres". The second one "Gare Du Nord" had an equally amazing impact. Each director had an amazing eyes for details in capturing moods, lighting and expressions. The stories of life were presented in a way you'll never have imagined before. Left me with dreamy dejau vu feeling that l can't quite shake myself off days later. l watched the VHS three times before returning it to the store, and got myself a brand new one that l'm sure l'll watch it another 1OOOOOOOOO (infinite) more times. lf l have more stars, l'll definitely give it a million stars.

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Buyer Rating: - * Perfectly Paris ...
This film has got to be one of the most definitive expressions of what "Paris" means. Six shorts, in six neighborhoods of Paris. lf you love Paris you will love this film. l especially liked the one about the arguing couple. The wife has an encounter with a gentleman on the street. l won't give it away, but it's fantastic. This grouping of Directors cannot be beat.

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Buyer Rating: - A sparkling , unusual snapshot of cool, sixties Paris.
What a wonderful gem of a film. lt perfectly captured the mood and characters of Sixties Paris. A mood much different than ours in America at that time. For lovers of Cool European culture each individual film has something to offer. At times humorous and at times poignant, l felt as if l had discovered something hidden for a long time. The directors involved in these films are all now quite famous for their contributions to modern cinema, but in Six in Paris you get the feeling you've been invited to their coming out party. Many of the techniques used in the directing of these films are now embraced by many, but no one today uses them like they are used here. Most importantly we get a strangely beautiful portrait of an edgy, sometimes gray, hip Paris which may be long gone. Stylish clothes, bustling cafe's, and plenty of Citroens and scooters buzzing around the streets - l would recommend this film to anyone looking to slip back into another time for an evening.