Zazie dans le métro
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.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Archival video interviews with director Louis Malle, novelist Raymond Queneau, actress Catherine Demongeot, and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- New audio interview with director and photographer William Klein, artistic consultant on the film
- Le Paris de Zazie, a 2005 video piece featuring assistant director Philippe Collin
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
New cover by Yann Legendre
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Archival video interviews with director Louis Malle, novelist Raymond Queneau, actress Catherine Demongeot, and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- New audio interview with director and photographer William Klein, artistic consultant on the film
- Le Paris de Zazie, a 2005 video piece featuring assistant director Philippe Collin
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
New cover by Yann Legendre
Cast
- Catherine Demongeot
- Zazie
- Philippe Noiret
- Uncle Gabriel
- Hubert Deschamps
- Turandot
- Carla Marlier
- Albertine
- Annie Fratellini
- Mado
- Vittorio Caprioli
- Trouscaillon
- Jacques Dufilho
- Ferdinand Grédoux
- Yvonne Clech
- Madame Mouaque
- Antoine Roblot
- Charles
- Odette Piquet
- Zazie’s mother
- Nicolas Bataille
- Fédor
Credits
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Based on the novel by
- Raymond Queneau
- Adapted by
- Louis Malle
- Adapted by
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Director of photography
- Henri Raichi
- Editing
- Kenout Peltier
- Music
- Fiorenzo Carpi
- Production design
- Bernard Evein
- Assistant director
- Philippe Collin
- Sound engineer
- André Hervée
- Artistic consultant
- William Klein
- Costumes
- Marc Doelnitz
- Makeup artist
- Aïda Carange
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