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
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 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)
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