Paris vu par...

The first two segments are the best, contrasting the city with its inhabitants and their relationships in a very human way. The third kind of dull, while Rohmer's gets closer thematically to the first two but the tone feels off and it's a bit distant. Godard's is a bit overwritten and drawn out and Chabrol's is a cute idea that doesn't quite work in the format and also feels tonally out of balance with the rest. It all makes for a mixed bag, but an interesting one if you like the French New Wave

De modo geral é uma boa antologia e os curtas que eu destacaria são o do Rohmer, o do Chabrol e o do Roach. O do Godard é atroz pela misoginia. DVDRip no MakingOff.

The whole film suffers from the fact that the loose, improvisational style of shooting with non-actors does not aid in creating short, pithy films centered around a single ironic joke. They mostly fall very flat.

A strong set of short films, a surprise since these anthology-type films seem to be a bit of a mixed bag. Godard's entry left me nonplussed, the Douchet and Pollet films were clever and comic, respectively, with Rohmer, Chabrol, and especially Rouch offering the strongest entries. Rouch's film anticipates much of the aesthetic now seen most often in films by the Dardenne brothers. Each of the filmmakers make ample use of exteriors, giving the set a cohesion lacking in the recent Paris je t'aime.