1960 · comedy
Zazie dans le Métro
Directed by Louis Malle1h 33m1960
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Our read: Zazie dans le Métro (1960) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- surreal
- intimate
- funny
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