Paris Belongs to Us (1961)

Original title

Paris nous appartient

Directed by

Jacques Rivette

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 20m

Rated

15

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young university student in Paris meets a group of people through her brother. They are haunted by unexplained fears and the suspicious deaths of two members. The source of their malaise stays unclear, leaving the viewer to wonder if it comes from personal issues, existential dread, or Cold War paranoia.

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What happens

Paris Belongs to Us (French: Paris nous appartient, sometimes translated as Paris Is Ours) is a 1961 French mystery film directed by Jacques Rivette in his feature-length directorial debut. The story centres on young university student Anne who, through her older brother, meets a group of people haunted by mysterious tensions and fears and the deaths of two of its members. The source of the malaise affecting the group is never explained, leaving viewers to wonder how far it might be an amalgam of individual imbalances, general existentialist anxiety, or the paranoia of the Cold War as the world faced the possibility of nuclear annihilation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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