Thursday 23 April 2009

Zazie dans le metro

In the recent portmanteau film Paris Je T'aime, Sylvain Chomet (who made Belleville Rendezvous) tries to create a live-action cartoon, featuring two clowns who meet in jail and fall in love.

Zazie dans le metro, Louis Malle's film from 1960, is a feature-length, Tommy and Jerry-style live-action cartoon. Full of Technicolor colour and quick cutting, the film is a joyous ode to Paris, a gentle depiction of childhood clashing with "the real world" and a love letter to cabaret-style frolics.

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