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Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. A history of the French capital on celluloid, from the early days to modern marvels. These are the best films set in Paris. Almost since movies began, the camera has loved the City of Lights. No wonder: Paris is as picturesque a city that exists, a kind of urban dreamland where iconic landmarks are situated around every corner and romance practically radiates from the pavement.
And as much as the movies have obsessed over the French capital, Paris has been obsessed with the movies. Here are 54 of the absolute best. Been there, done that? Think again, my friend. And as a diversion, this serial saga in 10 episodes of a band of robbers whose principals include Satanas, who keeps a howitzer behind the fireplace and a bomb under his top hat, and Irma Vep, the notorious anagram, to whom Olivier Assayas rendered homage 80 years later.
There's a hero a resolute reporter , but all the interest goes to Irma and Co It starts out with a crazed inventor perfecting a ray that suspends animation throughout Paris and then has a great deal of fun tracing the paths of a handful of 'survivors' through the frozen city. The prolific jokes about motion and stasis are fundamentally movie concept gags Boudu the peerless Michel Simon, who also produced is the boorish, mangy-dog-like transient Some filmmakers have a lifetime to develop their art, to explore their themes, and to express their worldviews.
Others do it in a single film. The result is not so much a film as an entire artistic vision crammed into 89 of the busiest and most beautiful minutes of celluloid ever shot. Dita Parlo plays Juliette, the small-town girl He plays Gerry Mulligan, a brash, goodhearted ex-GI turned painter torn between love and career. Paris, Martin Bourvil , a slow-witted spiv, persuades a stranger, Grandgil Gabin , to help him shift four suitcases of pork from butcher to buyer during the blackout.
