Zazie dans le métro (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

This is a delightfully entertaining movie. It's also one of the weirdest comedies I've ever seen. It follows a stream of consciousness approach that moves from wordplay to irony to surrealism to slapstick, and quite often all at the same time. Catherine Demongeot is incredibly charming as the child Zazie who, bored with the artifice and insincerity of the uptight and insecure adults she encounters, seems to bend the world and its people to her whims like a gleefully demented wizard. With the wrong actress playing the part, the movie might have fallen on its face, but thankfully Demongeot is up to the task.Not all of it works, but the parts that don't are just brief pauses in the madness that otherwise fills the film from wall to wall. The lulls are almost even welcome because it might be tiring with the laugh-a-second approach of the first hour.Make no mistake, this movie is pure insanity from start to finish, and as such it might not be to everyone's taste. But if you appreciate a little weirdness in your day, I think you'll find that this movie has some of the most inspired weirdness around.

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If this is not the best film ever made it's energy, innocence and wit make it one of my favourites. The plot is simple enough. Zazie arrives to spend a weekend with her uncle in Paris and finds herself at the centre of a series of increasingly absurd adventures, surrounding her Unkoo Gabriel who dances at a Parisian night club, his wife the Gentle Marceline and a horde of adult characters including a mysterious policeman . Louis Malle has found a way of translating Raymond Queaneau's Parisian Patois and incorrigible learned puns into a visual langauge all of his own. If some of the gags seem a little like old episodes of the Goodies this is not a bad thing and the Eiffell tower sequence is sheer brilliance - all in all a film that can be watched many times without losing it's punch.

A girl is left with her uncle for the weekend (or a day, I think) while Mom runs off with her new boyfriend. She has one wish while she's there...to ride the Metro train...which, naturally, is on strike.Wackiness ensues.Shot largely as if it were a slapstick silent film, this is one wacky, odd romp around Paris. The Eiffel tower scenes are surely one-of-a-kind and worth the price of admission alone.You won't really find yourself laughing a lot so much as just marveling at the spectacle of the thing.

If you're at all interested in French culture you should first read the book in French but this is a tremendous movie. If you're an english speaker try watching the movie with the subtitles and listen to the French language. You can learn a lot from the film and it's just a great film to watch. So impressed.

This film is so much fun. I can watch it over and over.

i love this movie. easily one of my favorite movies. a must buy if you like french new wave slap-sticky wacky coolness confusion etc etc.

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Zazie is a great book and a fun film (as long as you don't mind the laziness and silliness of the food fight towards the end). Cool bebop soundtrack in places.The problem is the versions and their aspect ratios.You never know if you are getting the supposed (IMDB are ambivalent) original 1.37:1, the "academy ratio", or something truncated at the sides for old tellies. I know, it would only lead to the loss of 1" of width on a 27"x48" screen, but the point is the inaccuracy of the sellers' product details:- they said my Arte Edition BluRay was 16:9, but the box says 1.33:1. Does it mean that, or is that shorthand for 1.37:1, since the Gaumont edition says "4:3-1.37:1"? All this is assuming it wasn't in fact shot in widescreen, as it is very successful thus on modern tellies, even if they have chopped off the top and bottom. DVD review sites express the same doubts.The Arte Edition only has French subtitles. This is good for me, but they can be in error: - when Zazie says "il est hormosessuel", the subtitles say, "il est homosexuel" which is a silly blunder.I also bought a Gaumont DVD out of curiosity. It won't play, though it is new, not used!

Il faut bien le dire, ce film est complètement ridicule et surtout vers la fin. Le seul attrait de ce film est la petite Zazie avec sa tronche d'espiègle bien drôle et adorable. On y voit quand même des beaux coins de Paris et il y a plusieurs bons passages. Mais le tout n'a aucun sens dans le fond sauf pour la tronche de Zazie. Il y a plusieurs extras et le bluray est très bien aussi!...

Bonjour.Que dire de ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO ?Chef d' oeuvre ?Nanar ?Une chose est sûre: l'on ne refera PAS ce film.D'abord... Paris n'existe plus.Non, plus, d'ailleurs, que cette France-là.Celle que j'aimais.Dommage, l'on ne voit pas Paname tant que ça.Mais au fond ce n'est pas le but - et il en transpire quelque chose.Je le sais, j'y ai vécu...Nul part ailleurs l'on n'aurait pu tourner ce film.Et puis, n'existent plus, non plus, Philippe Noiret, Yvonne Clech, Annie Fratellini, Jacques Dufilho, Hubert Deschamps, Vittorio Caprioli.Ni Jean-Paul Rappeneau, ni le décorateur Bernard Evein, le compositeur Fiorenzo Carpi, le directeur-photo Henri Raichi.Ni Louis Malle.Qui a tenté l'impossible adaptation, je devrais dire la transposition, du roman.Tous BONS artisans de notre bon vieux cinoche.Ni l'auteur du bouquin, Raymond Queneau, créateur de l' Oulipo, l' Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle.Cette dernière chose expliquant beaucoup et le roman, et le film.Mais surtout pas de gourance, celui-ci n'est pas stérile.Treize ans plus tard est né un chef d' oeuvre de Philippe de Broca, à la gloire de la gouaille, du talent, de la vitalité, de l'humour de notre vieux et cher Bebel, et de la beauté absolue et de la fantaisie de Jacqueline Bisset, toute aussi époustouflante que lui dans son double rôle.C'est: LE MAGNIFIQUE.Le clin d'oeil, c' est la présence dans les deux films de Vittorio Caprioli qui, dans le Magnifique a - comme chacun - un double rôle.Et c'est le MÊME personnage, finalement, que dans Zazie.Et il est très réjouissant de voir les deux films à la suite: l'hommage de Philippe de Broca à Louis Malle est évident.A bien réfléchir, j'ai bien fait de mettre cinq étoiles...Ah oui... je salue Carla Marlier, belle, hiératique.Et bien sûr Catherine Demongeot, gamine unique, poulbot, personnage catalyseur autour de qui tourne cette dénonciation d'un monde trop sérieux, cet appel à un brin de folie jeune, dévastatrice et libératoire.Sa bouille traverse, stoïque et impertinente, ces enchaînements burlesques.Et quand elle sourit, elle est la plus adulte de tous...Un nanar, ZAZIE ?" Mon cul ! "...En complément sur le DVD:un entretien avec Jean-Paul Rappeneau ( 2005 ),un autre avec Raymond Queneau ( 1959 ),Philippe Colin, homme-cinéma, témoigne du Paris de Zazie ( 2005 ),Arte Radio nous offre quelques reportages( 2005 ).ps: Laisser refroidir avant d'avoir la moindre opinion définitive.Vous en redemanderez un jour.Pour le prix de deux cafés, on voyage...C'est ÇA, le cinéma.pps: En cas de panne de courant, lire le livre à la bougie.ZAZIE ? J'AIME !

Quelle déception, depuis le temps que je voulais voir ce film ! Comme il s'agissait de l'histoire d'une petite fille espiègle, je pensais le regarder avec ma petite fille ; j'ai bien fait de visionner seule avant... que des gros mots dans la bouche de Zazie... je n'ai pas su aller jusqu'au bout du film :-((

voyage d'une jeune fille à travers paris, ville bouillonnante et étonnante.