Place de la République Film Still

Place de la République

Louis Malle

France

1974

95 minutes

Color

1.33:1

French

Synopsis

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris. This, Vive le Tour, and Humain, trop humain, Malle’s three French-set documentaries, reveal, in an eclectic array of ways, the director’s eternal fascination with, and respect for, the everyday lives of everyday people.

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Credits

DirectorLouis Malle
ProducerNouvelles Éditions de Films
ScreenplayLouis Malle
CinematographyÉtienne Becker, Louis Malle and Fernand Mozskowicz
SoundJean-Claude Laureux
EditingSuzanne Baron

From the Current

Eclipse Series 2:
The Documentaries of Louis Malle

by Michael Koresky Apr 23, 2007

Deservedly celebrated for the astonishingly diverse array of narrative features he made over a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle was in fact even more multifaceted than this body of work suggests. For alongside such well-known, and disparate, dramas as the cool noir Elevator to the Gallows . . .

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