Fresh
What most ensemble films lack in cohesiveness, Six in Paris finds in historical context. Forty years later, it is an essential testament of the French New Wave's energy, ingenuity and aesthetic.
Kathie Smith, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Six in Paris
1965 · 1h 35m · N/A
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Éric Rohmer
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Jean Douchet
,
Claude Chabrol
,
Jean-Daniel Pollet
,
Jean Rouch
Overview
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Director and cast
- Éric Rohmer Director
- Jean-Luc Godard Director
- Jean Douchet Director
- Claude Chabrol Director
- Jean-Daniel Pollet Director
- Jean Rouch Director
- Barbara Wilkin as Katherine (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
- Jean-François Chappey as Jean (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
- Jean-Pierre Andréani as Raymond (segment "Saint-Germain-des-Prés")
- Nadine Ballot as Odile (segment "Gare du Nord")
- Barbet Schroeder as Jean-Pierre (segment "Gare du Nord")
- Gilles Quéant as Stranger (segment "Gare du Nord")
- Micheline Dax as Prostitute (segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
- Claude Melki as Léon (segment "Rue Saint-Denis")
- Jean-Michel Rouzière as Jean-Marc (segment "Place de l'Etoile")
- Marcel Gallon as Victim (segment "Place de l'Etoile")
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The greatest pleasure is seeing an oily, hideous Claude Chabrol and his wife at the time, Stephane Audran, in his La Muette, playing a more odious version of the bickering, bourgeois couple that Chabrol would later specialize in savaging.
Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
Rotten
Disappointingly lightweight.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
If the six different locales are a standard Cook's Tour of the capital, most of the principals, however fleetingly, make Parisians, not Paris, diverting, if not memorable.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Fresh
Probably the best of the anthology films that were briefly in vogue in the early 60s.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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