Lovers of Paris (1957)
- Original title
- Pot-Bouille
- Directed by
- Julien Duvivier
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 25 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young man moves to Paris and becomes involved with the residents of a bourgeois apartment building. The film explores their secret lives and hypocrisies.
classicdramaticobservationalurbanwrysocially-awareperiodrestrained
What happens
Lovers of Paris (original title Pot-Bouille, "Stew Pot") is a 1957 French film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Gérard Philipe. It is based on the 1882 novel Pot-Bouille by Émile Zola. The movie is in black and white, and filmed in 35 mm. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location in the city. The sets were designed by the art director Léon Barsacq. It premiered in France on October 18, 1957. It was the second film Duvivier directed based on a novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, the first being Au Bonheur des Dames in 1930. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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