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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own life, Betty Schneider visits many of the places frequented by the dead youth. She learns from theatre-director Giani Esposito that the suicide victim was part of a sinister international conspiracy. She further learns from American-expatriate Daniel Crohem that Esposito has also been targeted for persecution by the conspirators. By the time Schneider realizes that the conspiracy was merely a figment of the neurotic Crohem's imagination, the terrified Esposito has killed himself. The intrigues of the plot take second place to the film's centerpiece: an eternally-in-progress stage production of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Now regarded as one of the pioneering efforts in the French "New Wave" movement, Paris Belongs to Us was also the first feature-length effort of director (and former critic and film theorist) Jacques Rivette. ...Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient ) ( Paris Is Ours )
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Since Hiroshima & Auschwitz there has been a malignant force at work in the world. Is it a fascist conspiracy or just a sense of suicidal alienation felt by those who rebel against conformism & "the system"? A naïve young woman joins a fringe drama group putting on Shakespeare's Pericles & gets drawn into an underground subculture & this strange conspiracy paranoia.
PARIS was made before BREATHLESS & 400 BLOWS but released after, which is just as well - if this had come out first it might have killed the French New Wave stone dead. This is not freewheeling new wave fun & certainly not "hip" or "cool". PARIS is a maudlin obscure film. Like other Rivette films, there is a suspicion that the whole thing is based on a rather slim silly premise, much ado about nothing. However, despite being over 2 hours, PARIS is quite intense & becomes peculiarly fascinating. Although a cold war film, it is relevant to the present & the idea that the whole world is engulfed with paranoia about apocalyptic conspiracies & counter-conspiracies, real or imagined. The film leaves a very haunting uncomfortable impression.
This is an excellent DVD from the bfi, extras include an early Rivette/Chabrol short plus a useful introduction from Jonathon Romney who compares PARIS with MARIENBAD & L'AVENTURA. A nice booklet too. So, not an easy or immediately likable film but a unique one, and this DVD is worth getting if you are at all interested in 60s European arthouse cinema.
PARIS was made before BREATHLESS & 400 BLOWS but released after, which is just as well - if this had come out first it might have killed the French New Wave stone dead. This is not freewheeling new wave fun & certainly not "hip" or "cool". PARIS is a maudlin obscure film. Like other Rivette films, there is a suspicion that the whole thing is based on a rather slim silly premise, much ado about nothing. However, despite being over 2 hours, PARIS is quite intense & becomes peculiarly fascinating. Although a cold war film, it is relevant to the present & the idea that the whole world is engulfed with paranoia about apocalyptic conspiracies & counter-conspiracies, real or imagined. The film leaves a very haunting uncomfortable impression.
This is an excellent DVD from the bfi, extras include an early Rivette/Chabrol short plus a useful introduction from Jonathon Romney who compares PARIS with MARIENBAD & L'AVENTURA. A nice booklet too. So, not an easy or immediately likable film but a unique one, and this DVD is worth getting if you are at all interested in 60s European arthouse cinema.
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Long, but never dull. Shades of Raymond Chandler, perhaps, in the sequence when Anne travels the city in search of a missing recording. While not as dazzling or bonkers as 'Celine et Julie', or as involving as the brilliant 'La belle noiseuse', this is still a rewarding experience, presented in a more than decent transfer. As with all Rivette, you have to close the curtains, turn the clock to face the wall, put your feet up and concentrate on the screen.
7 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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I was actually disappointed with Rivette's Paris nous appartient, without having high expectations. The acting is surprisingly stiff and crud, the plot is just silly and the film is far too long. I wonder how Rivette got people like Godard and Chabrol, icons of the french new wave, to appear in minor roles in the film... This is not a movie representing the nouvelle vague, rather some kind of failed experiment. The omitting of Rivette from textbooks about french 60s cinema seems justified after watching this. Watch something by Godard or Truffaut instead. The DVD from BFI, though, is ok with fine transfer and informative booklet.
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