96 minutes / Color
French / English subtitles
Release: 2020
Copyright: 1965
Restored with support from the CNC and now available on Blu-ray for the first time ever!
In 1965, young producer Barbet Schroeder supplied a 16mm camera, along with color film stock, to six friends, asking them to each make a short film about a Parisian neighborhood. The resulting films were shot quickly, with low budgets, improvised takes and live sound. Fresh and original, and featuring contributions by luminaries including Nestor Almendros, Albert Maysles and Jackie Reynal, these six vignettes offer captivating and varied glimpses of the City of Lights:
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“Memorable! [Paris] is affectionately drawn by six New Wave directors in pleasing pastels.” —The New York Times
“Delectable; youth and freedom infuse this coherent, ambitious work.” —Le Monde
“A perfect balance is struck between the big city and individuals, the cityscape and interior spaces, the public and private.” —The Stranger
“A delicious smorgasbord of short offerings that pay tribute to the city that inspired the New Wave generation." —Harvard Film Archive
“Amusing...beautiful.” —Los Angeles Times
“Rouch poses weighty challenges to the unquestioned routines of daily life; his small-scale film has the rich social, political, historical, and psychological implications of an epic feature.” —The New Yorker
“Six in Paris is not just a set of films; it’s a cinematic journey that continues to inspire and captivate.” —Overly Honest Reviews
“Recommended! Six In Paris is a terrific anthology film that shows how creative some of the French masters could be even with limited resources. If you are a fan of French cinema, there is no reason not to have this on your shelf.” —Geek Vibes Nation
Select Accolades
The landmark collaboration between Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in protest of the Vietnam war.
Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais | 2013 | 115 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's legendary portrait of Paris and Parisians at the close of the Algerian war.
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme | 2013 | 145 minutes | English; French | English subtitles
Jean Rouch brings his Nigerien collaborators to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960s Parisian life.
Jean Rouch | 2012 | 92 minutes | Color | English; French | English subtitles
In Geneva, Switzerland, film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard meet for a surprisingly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue.
Frederic Choffat and Vincent Lowy | 2011 | 44 minutes | Color | French | English subtitles
