Zazie dans le métro: Girl Trouble
By June 28, 2011
Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro is the funniest book ever written in, and about, the French language. When it came out in 1959, it “made the whole of France laugh,” Jean-Paul Read more »
- France
- 1960
- 92 minutes
- Color
- 1.33:1
- French
- Spine #570
SYNOPSIS: A brash and precocious ten-year-old (Catherine Demongeot) comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle (Philippe Noiret); he and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy from Louis Malle, which rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, Malle’s audacious Zazie dans le métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.
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Cast
| Zazie | Catherine Demongeot |
| Uncle Gabriel | Philippe Noiret |
| Turandot | Hubert Deschamps |
| Albertine | Carla Marlier |
| Mado | Annie Fratellini |
| Trouscaillon | Vittorio Caprioli |
| Ferdinand Grédoux | Jacques Dufilho |
| Madame Mouaque | Yvonne Clech |
| Charles | Antoine Roblot |
| Zazie’s mother | Odette Piquet |
| Fédor | Nicolas Bataille |
Credits
| Director | Louis Malle |
| Based on the novel by | Raymond Queneau |
| Adapted by | Louis Malle and Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Director of photography | Henri Raichi |
| Editing | Kenout Peltier |
| Music | Fiorenzo Carpi |
| Production design | Bernard Evein |
| Assistant director | Philippe Collin |
| Sound engineer | André Hervée |
| Artistic consultant | William Klein |
| Costumes | Marc Doelnitz |
| Makeup artist | Aïda Carange |
Disc Features
- New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Archival video interviews with director Louis Malle, novelist Raymond Queneau, actress Catherine Demongeot, and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- New audio interview with director and photographer William Klein, artistic consultant on the film
- Le Paris de Zazie, a 2005 video piece featuring assistant director Philippe Collin
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
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