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

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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