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Zazie dans le Metro (1960)
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STARS...........: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps
DIRECTOR........: Louis Malle
WRITERS.........: Raymond Queneau, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
GENRE...........: Comedy, Fantasy
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054494
RUNTIME.........: 1h 33mn
SIZE............: 5.04 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC ([email protected])
BITRATE.........: 7500 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1440x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.33:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: French FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-01-06


A brash and precocious ten-year-old (Catherine Demongeot) comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle (Philippe Noiret); he and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy from Louis Malle, which rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, Malle’s audacious Zazie dans le métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.


Extras

• Louis Malle - An excerpt from the October 26, 1960, episode of the French news program JT 19h15 in which film journalist Mario Beunat interviews director Louis Malle. The director explains why he decided to film Raymond Queneau's famous novel and discusses the film's "unrealistic colors", its vision of modern life, etc.

• Catherine Demongeot - An episode of the French television program Cinq colonnes a la une in which journalists Jean-Noel Roy and Pierre Dumayet interview the star of Zazie dans le metro, Catherine Demongeot.

• Raymond Queneau: Lectures pour tous - Originally broadcast on February 4, 1959.

• Raymond Queneau: En Francais dans le texte - Originally broadcast on March 24, 1961.

• Le Paris de Zazie - A tour of the Paris locations seen in Zazie dans le metro with Philippe Collin, Louis Malle's assistant director. Filmed in 2005.

• Jean-Paul Rappeneau - In this video interview, writer-director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Horseman on the Roof), recalls his first encounter with director Louis Malle and work on Zazie dans le metro.

• William Klein - A new, exclusive audio interview with filmmaker William Klein (Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, Mr. Freedom), who was Louis Malle's artistic director on Zazie dans le metro. The interview was recorded for Criterion in April 2011.

• Trailer - The original French theatrical trailer for Zazie dans le metro