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Six in Paris
Theatrical release poster

French	Paris vu par...

Directed by	Éric Rohmer Jean-Luc Godard Jean Douchet Claude Chabrol Jean-Daniel Pollet Jean Rouch
Written by	Éric Rohmer Jean-Luc Godard Jean Douchet Claude Chabrol Jean-Daniel Pollet Jean Rouch Georges Keller
Produced by	Barbet Schroeder
Cinematography	Jean Rabier Étienne Becker
Production companies	Les Films du Cyprès Les Films du Losange
Distributed by	Les Films du Losange
Release date	19 May 1965 (1965-05-19) (France)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Six in Paris (French: Paris vu par..., lit. 'Paris Seen By...') is a 1965 French comedy-drama anthology film.

Cast and segments

"Saint-Germain-des-Prés" Directed by Jean Douchet

Segment about an American girl student taken in by a French playboy and gets wise to another's ways. Director Douchet was at the time, like Eric Rohmer, a freshly resigned critic from Cahiers du Cinéma best known later for book on Hitchcock.

"Gare du Nord" Directed by Jean Rouch

Nadine Ballot as Odile
Gilles Quéant as Stranger
Barbet Schroeder as Jean-Pierre

Segment shows the influence of documentary and 16 mm by Rouch. Also notably uses almost one long hand-held continuous take, following Odile from a breakfast table argument with her boyfriend (played by producer/director Barbet Schroeder in an early role), whom she is bored and irritated by into the street where she meets a mysterious man. The man seems to be the answer to all her complaints and wants her to go away with him but for otherwise saying he will kill himself if she does not.

"Rue Saint-Denis" Directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet

Micheline Dax as Prostitute
Claude Melki as Leon

Format again inflects form in Jean Daniel Pollet's segment with comedy as real-world stage actress Michelline Dax plays the worldly Parisian prostitute broadly as she kindheartedly makes fun of her inexperienced customer. Melki, like a few New Wave actors, riffs on Buster Keaton in nod to a tradition of shorts being comedies in the role.

"Place de l'Etoile" Directed by Eric Rohmer

Marcel Gallon as Victim
Jean-Michel Rouzière as Jean-Marc
Georges Bez
Jean Douchet as A client
Sarah Georges-Picot
Maya Josse as Woman in the metro
Philippe Sollers as A client

Some would later identify this as uncharacteristically Rohmer neglecting his writing on silent comedy. The short plays upon the confusion around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris embodied by the character Jean-Marc as deftly shot by Nestor Almendros. In going to and from work the character mistakenly believes that he has killed a man in a rude encounter and tries to dodge location and responsibility.

"Montparnasse-Levallois" Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Serge Davri as Ivan
Philippe Hiquilly as Roger
Joanna Shimkus as Monica

Segment interprets the news story that Alfred Lubitsch (Jean-Paul Belmondo) reads to Angela (Anna Karina) in a restaurant in A Woman Is a Woman (1961). Itself based on the Jean Giraudoux story "La Méprise" with the genders reversed in the film where two women receive the letters mistakenly sent by their lover to the wrong person. Shot by American documentarian Albert Maysles, showing the woman's plight, Monica, to retrieve and amend the letters she sent.

"La Muette" Directed by Claude Chabrol

Stéphane Audran as The mother
Claude Chabrol as The father
Gilles Chusseau as Boy
Dany Saril as The maid

Known for his Hitchcockian 'horror-beneath-the-bourgeois-surface' exposed on film, director Claude Chabrol himself plays the 'bourgeois' father here with his then-wife Stephane Audran as the mother of a mischievous boy who starts putting ear-plugs in his ears to keep from hearing their constant arguments playfully exploiting the critical-laden term diegesis.

References

Brody, Richard (2008). Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. New York: Metropolitan Books. pp. 177–179. ISBN 978-0-80506-886-3.

External links

Jean-Luc Godard

Filmography

Feature

Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Le petit soldat (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Bande à part (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Weekend (1967)
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1968)
Joy of Learning (1969)
British Sounds (1969)
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Number Two (1975)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Passion (1982)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Hail Mary (1985)
Détective (1985)
King Lear (1987)
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993)
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1995)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Notre musique (2004)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)

Short and
segment

Operation Concrete (1955)
Une femme coquette (1955)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)
A Story of Water (1958)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
"Sloth" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
"The New World" in Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1962)
"Le Grand escroc" in Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1963)
"Montparnasse-Levallois" in Paris vu par (1964)
"Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000" in The Oldest Profession (1965)
"Caméra-oeil" in Far from Vietnam (1967)
"L'Amore" in Amore e rabbia (1969)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
How's it going
A Letter to Freddy Buache (1982)
Soft and Hard (1985)
Meetin' WA (1986)
"Armide" in Aria (1987)
"Le Dernier mot" in The French as Seen by... (1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998)
"Dans le noir du temps" in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
"Les Trois Désastres" in 3X3D (2013)
"The Bridge of Sighs" in Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux (2014)
Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (2023)

Paparazzi (1963 documentary)
Le Parti des choses (1964 documentary)
Two in the Wave (2010 documentary)
One P.M. (1972 documentary)
Redoubtable (2017 biopic)
Groupe Dziga Vertov
Bibliography

v t e Films directed by Claude Chabrol
Le Beau Serge (1958) Les Cousins (1959) Web of Passion (1959) Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) Wise Guys (1961) The Third Lover (1962) Landru (1963) Ophélia (1963) Code Name: Tiger (1964) Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha (1965) Six in Paris (segment "La Muette") (1965) Our Agent Tiger (1965) Line of Demarcation (1966) The Champagne Murders (1967) The Road to Corinth (1967) Les Biches (1968) The Unfaithful Wife (1969) This Man Must Die (1969) Le Boucher (1970) The Breach (1970) Just Before Nightfall (1971) Ten Days' Wonder (1971) Dr. Popaul (1972) Wedding in Blood (1973) Nada (1974) Pleasure Party (1975) Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975) Death Rite (1976) The Twist (1976) Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) Blood Relatives (1978) Violette Nozière (1978) The Horse of Pride (1980) The Hatter's Ghost (1982) The Blood of Others (1984) Cop au Vin (1985) Inspecteur Lavardin (1986) Masks (1987) The Cry of the Owl (1987) Story of Women (1988) Quiet Days in Clichy (1990) Dr. M (1990) Madame Bovary (1991) Betty (1992) The Eye of Vichy (1993) Hell (1994) La Cérémonie (1995) The Swindle (1997) The Color of Lies (1999) Merci pour le Chocolat (2000) The Flower of Evil (2003) The Bridesmaid (2004) Comedy of Power (2006) A Girl Cut in Two (2007) Bellamy (2009)

Films directed by Claude Chabrol

Le Beau Serge (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
Web of Passion (1959)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Wise Guys (1961)
The Third Lover (1962)
Landru (1963)
Ophélia (1963)
Code Name: Tiger (1964)
Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha (1965)
Six in Paris (segment "La Muette") (1965)
Our Agent Tiger (1965)
Line of Demarcation (1966)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
The Road to Corinth (1967)
Les Biches (1968)
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
This Man Must Die (1969)
Le Boucher (1970)
The Breach (1970)
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
Dr. Popaul (1972)
Wedding in Blood (1973)
Nada (1974)
Pleasure Party (1975)
Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
Death Rite (1976)
The Twist (1976)
Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Blood Relatives (1978)
Violette Nozière (1978)
The Horse of Pride (1980)
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
The Blood of Others (1984)
Cop au Vin (1985)
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Masks (1987)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Story of Women (1988)
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Dr. M (1990)
Madame Bovary (1991)
Betty (1992)
The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Hell (1994)
La Cérémonie (1995)
The Swindle (1997)
The Color of Lies (1999)
Merci pour le Chocolat (2000)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
Comedy of Power (2006)
A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
Bellamy (2009)

Éric Rohmer

Feature films

Six Moral Tales	The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) Suzanne's Career (1963) La Collectionneuse (1967) My Night at Maud's (1969) Claire's Knee (1970) Love in the Afternoon (1972)
Comedies and Proverbs	The Aviator's Wife (1981) Le Beau Mariage (1982) Pauline at the Beach (1983) Full Moon in Paris (1984) The Green Ray (1986) Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Tales of the Four Seasons	A Tale of Springtime (1990) A Tale of Winter (1992) A Summer's Tale (1996) Autumn Tale (1998)
The Sign of Leo (1962) L'enfance d'une ville (1975) The Marquise of O (1976) Perceval le Gallois (1978) Catherine de Heilbronn (1980) Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) Le trio en si bémol (1988) Les Jeux de société (1989) The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993) Rendezvous in Paris (1995) The Lady and the Duke (2001) Triple Agent (2004) The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)

Short films

Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak (1951)
Véronique et son cancre (1958)
Les métamorphoses du paysage : l'ère industrielle (1964)
Les cabinets de physique : la vie de société au 18e siècle (1964)
Six in Paris (segment "Place de l'Étoile") (1965)
Les caractères de La Bruyère (1965)
Les histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe (1965)
Entretien sur Pascal (1965)
Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir (1968)
Victor Hugo architecte (1969)

Works about

Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010 documentary)
Éric Rohmer: A Biography (2014 biography)

v t e Jean Rouch
Films directed	Les maîtres fous (1955) Moi, un noir (1958) Chronicle of a Summer (1961) The Human Pyramid (1961) "Gare du Nord" in Six in Paris (1965) Jaguar (1967) The Year 01 (1973) Babatu (1976) Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet (1977) Dionysos (1984)
Miscellaneous	Ateliers Varan Ethnofiction

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