Six in Paris (Paris vu par…)

Part of the BAMcinematek series Mad Obsessions: The Films of Barbet Schroeder

Fri, Oct 3—Sun, Oct 5 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Mon, Oct 6—Tue, Oct 7 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Wed, Oct 8 at 4:30, 9:30pm
Thu, Oct 9 at 7:30, 9:30pm

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Jean Rouch

(1965) 93min

“affectionately drawn by six New Wave directors in pleasing pastels”—The New York Times

The original Paris, je t’aime-style omnibus film features a series of witty vignettes about the City of Lights by the best of the French directors. Highlights include Godard’s segment, shot by Albert Maysles, about a girl who sends letters to various lovers and thinks she mixes up the envelopes, and Chabrol’s, in which the director and his then-wife, Stéphane Audran, play a bickering couple. Schroeder appears in Rouch’s piece, in which a wife leaves her husband after a fight and meets a stranger on the street. Produced by the company Schroeder and Eric Rohmer founded in the early 1960s, Films du Losange. In French with English subtitles. New print courtesy of New Yorker Films!

The New Yorker Review of Six in Paris
"The best of them, set around the Étoile, is Rohmer’s—a tense, witty exploration of the inner life of a fussy and frightened man. It’s so closely observed that we suffer acutely when his peace of mind is endangered." More

The L Magazine Review of Six in Paris
"As a kind of meta-cinematic calling card for one of the most varied and disjointed film movements to straddle mainstream and art cinema, Six in Paris is appropriately fun and disorienting." More