Zazie dans le Métro

Director: Louis Malle, Louis Malle, Louis Malle

1960 / 93min / 35mm

Visiting her female-impersonator uncle in Paris, adolescent Zazie (Catherine Demongeot) hopes to realize her most cherished dream by taking a ride on the Métro, only to find the universe conspiring to prevent her from doing so at every turn. Adapting Raymond Queneau’s novel of the same name, Malle employs a visual approach as idiosyncratic as Queneau’s syntax, employing the dazzling diversity of cinematographic tricks and techniques that make this colorful, effervescent film a source of constant surprise and delight.