On the Run in Paris

A warren of cell-like garret apartments, broad boulevards, and gently graded rooftops that one can, in a jam, run a hasty retreat across, Paris is a custom-made backdrop for films about characters clawing their way out of the corners they’ve been backed into. And you’ll see some spectacular retreats in this series, comprised of movies that follow the scent of hunted prey through the urban thickets of “Gay Paree”: casual cop-killer Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless, discombobulated visiting Yankee Harrison Ford in Frantic, and a host of other fraught fugitives seeking out a space of shadowy refuge and repose in the City of Lights.