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French Cinema: top 5 Paris films!*
Parisians go to the cinema on average once a week and take films - especially French films (of which 25 are released each year) - very seriously. In general they prefer to watch foreign films in their original language with French subtitles.
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless; France, 1959): Jean-Luc Godard's first feature is a carefree, fast-paced B&W celebration of Paris, From avenue des Champs-Elysées to the cafés of the Left Bank. Technically it challenged gangster movie conventions with the inspired new technique of jumping-cutting (ie cutting a scene within the same camera setup).
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amelie; France 2001): one of the most popular French films internationally in years, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's feel-good story of a winsome young Parisian do-gooder named Amélie takes viewers on a technicolor tour of Pigalle, Notre Dame, train stations and, above all, Montmartre.
Last Tango in Paris (USA, 1972): in Bernardo Bertolucci's classic, Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career portraying a grief-stricken American in Paris trying to find salvation in anonymous, sadomasochistic sex.
La Haine (Hate; France, 1995): Matthieu Kassovitz's incendiary B&W film examines the racism, social repression and violence among Parisian beurs, young French-born Algerians.
Boy Meets Girl (France, 1984): this moody B&W film from Léos Carax - his first feature - creates a kind of Parisian purgatory of souls lost in the eternal night.
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