In the early morning dawn of a summer day, an experienced driver takes on a dangerous and illegal high-speed car chase through the empty streets of Paris. With the sound of revving engines and shifting gears, he navigates hairpin turns and tunnels, racing through famous avenues like Place de la Concorde and Avenue des Champs-Élysées. The adrenaline-filled chase is a cinematic experience, capturing the excitement and risk of illegal car racing in the city of love.
A young man, unsuccessful in love, manages to leave his body and tours Paris, disembodied and invisible, playing practical jokes: a row of coats walks off from a hotel cloakroom; an unattended taxi drives itself away; a row of top hats appears on the pavement.
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
In 1928, Georges Lacombe, then assistant to René Clair, filmed the ragpickers who lived in the "zone". As his camera was stationary, he took particular care over the framing and he offers the viewer a document that is imbued with both realism and poetry. We even see the once-famous cancan dancer "La Goulue", sunk into poverty at the end of her life. - MHEU
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