Paris &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Paris @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:18:06 +0200 Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou [Beaubourg] (Roberto... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/beaubourg-centre-dart-et-de-culture-georges-pompidou-1977 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou [Beaubourg] (Roberto Rossellini, 1977)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" 1977/div div class="img" Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (1977)/div div class="caption" Rossellini on site. DPs: Néstor Almendros, Jean Chiabaut & Emmanuel Machuel./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #RobertoRossellini #RichardRogers #SuRogers #RenzoPiano #GianfrancoFranchini #NéstorAlmendros #JeanChiabaut #EmmanuelMachuel #art #documentary #CentrePompidou #museums #architecture #France #Paris #1970s/div /section ]]>

Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou [Beaubourg] (Roberto Rossellini, 1977)

Jan

31

1977

Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (1977)

Rossellini on site. DPs: Néstor Almendros, Jean Chiabaut & Emmanuel Machuel.

#FilmDuJour #January #RobertoRossellini #RichardRogers #SuRogers #RenzoPiano #GianfrancoFranchini #NéstorAlmendros #JeanChiabaut #EmmanuelMachuel #art #documentary #CentrePompidou #museums #architecture #France #Paris #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/beaubourg-centre-dart-et-de-culture-georges-pompidou-1977 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Soleil Ô [Oh, Sun] (Med Hondo, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1sfs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Soleil Ô [Oh, Sun] (Med Hondo, 1970)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" Human Rights Day/div div class="img" Soleil Ô (1970).jpg)/div div class="caption" An optimistic Robert Liensol in the city of lights (via). DPs: François Catonné & Jean-Claude Rahaga./div div class="txt" Celebrating human rights on Human Rights Day: the right to work "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment." ### – Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations General Assembly A Mauritanian immigrant (Robert Liensol) too starts anew in Paris. But first, he'll need a job. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #HumanRightsDay #HumanRights #MedHondo #RobertLiensol #ThéoLégitimus #AmbroiseMBia #GabrielGlissant #AkonioDolo #BernardFresson #SarahHardenberg #GérardHernandez #GillesSégal #GeorgeAnderson #FrançoisCatonné #JeanClaudeRahaga #drama #racism #diaspora #Paris #France #Mauritania #1970s/div /section ]]>

Soleil Ô [Oh, Sun] (Med Hondo, 1970)

Dec

10

Human Rights Day

Soleil Ô (1970)

An optimistic Robert Liensol in the city of lights (via). DPs: François Catonné & Jean-Claude Rahaga.

Celebrating human rights on Human Rights Day: the right to work

“Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”

– Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations General Assembly

A Mauritanian immigrant (Robert Liensol) too starts anew in Paris. But first, he'll need a job.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #HumanRightsDay #HumanRights #MedHondo #RobertLiensol #ThéoLégitimus #AmbroiseMBia #GabrielGlissant #AkonioDolo #BernardFresson #SarahHardenberg #GérardHernandez #GillesSégal #GeorgeAnderson #FrançoisCatonné #JeanClaudeRahaga #drama #racism #diaspora #Paris #France #Mauritania #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1sfs Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0100 La vérité [The Truth] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b31g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La vérité [The Truth] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1959/div div class="img" La vérité (1960)/div div class="caption" Gilbert (Sami Frey) and Dominique (Brigitte Bardot). DP: Armand Thirard./div div class="txt" The day of the court case. Numerous other dates are mentioned, all in flashbacks. – The Paris Court of Appeals, meeting on October 15, 1959, pursuant to the charges against Dominique Marceau. – With a girl like that, truth may be the best defense for once. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #HenriGeorgesClouzot #BrigitteBardot #PaulMeurisse #CharlesVanel #SamiFrey #MarieJoséNat #JeanLoupReynold #ArmandThirard #drama #romance #crime #Paris #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

La vérité [The Truth] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)

Oct

15

1959

La vérité (1960)

Gilbert (Sami Frey) and Dominique (Brigitte Bardot). DP: Armand Thirard.

The day of the court case. Numerous other dates are mentioned, all in flashbacks.

– The Paris Court of Appeals, meeting on October 15, 1959, pursuant to the charges against Dominique Marceau.

– With a girl like that, truth may be the best defense for once.

#FilmDuJour #October #HenriGeorgesClouzot #BrigitteBardot #PaulMeurisse #CharlesVanel #SamiFrey #MarieJoséNat #JeanLoupReynold #ArmandThirard #drama #romance #crime #Paris #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b31g Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0200 Mélodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Henri Verneuil, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/melodie-en-sous-sol-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Mélodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Henri Verneuil, 1963)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)/div div class="caption" Mario (Henri Virlojeux), bathhouse proprietor. A nearby wall calendar reads mardi, septembre 6. DP: Louis Page./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #HenriVerneuil #ZekialMarko #JeanGabin #AlainDelon #HenriVirlojeux #MichelMagne #LouisPage #crime #heist #BookAdaptation #jazz #Paris #Cannes #France #Italy #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Mélodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Henri Verneuil, 1963)

Sep

6

Tue

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)

Mario (Henri Virlojeux), bathhouse proprietor. A nearby wall calendar reads mardi, septembre 6. DP: Louis Page.

#FilmDuJour #September #HenriVerneuil #ZekialMarko #JeanGabin #AlainDelon #HenriVirlojeux #MichelMagne #LouisPage #crime #heist #BookAdaptation #jazz #Paris #Cannes #France #Italy #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/melodie-en-sous-sol-1963 Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0200 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/pickpocket-1959-b7hg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" Sun/div div class="img" Pickpocket (1959)/div div class="caption" The newspaper of Sunday, September 6, announcing a derby. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel./div div class="txt" "The pickings were poor and not worth the risk." ### – Michel\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #RobertBresson #MarikaGreen #JeanPélégri #PierreLeymarie #Kassagi #PierreÉtaix #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #crime #romance #Paris #France #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

Sep

6

Sun

Pickpocket (1959)

The newspaper of Sunday, September 6, announcing a derby. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.

“The pickings were poor and not worth the risk.”

– Michel

#FilmDuJour #September #RobertBresson #MarikaGreen #JeanPélégri #PierreLeymarie #Kassagi #PierreÉtaix #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #crime #romance #Paris #France #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/pickpocket-1959-b7hg Sat, 06 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0200 Petit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pn58 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Petit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" Skyscraper Day/div div class="img" Petit à petit (1970)/div div class="caption" Damouré (Damouré Zika) measures a Parisian with craniology callipers. No skyscraper in this still, but there's scaffolding. DP: Jean Rouch./div div class="txt" A skyscraper for Skyscraper Day (USA) &nbsp; In the sequel to Rouch's Jaguar (1967), Damouré wants a high rise for his Niger business with "as many floors as he has wives". He decides to travel to Paris to learn about the construction of such building, and what made Paris to the Paris of today. While there, he gets distracted by the peculiarities of the French natives. Worried about Damouré's increasingly puzzling postcards, his company sends out Lam (Lam Ibrahim Dia) to bring him home. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #SkyscraperDay #skyscrapers #JeanRouch #DamouréZika #LamIbrahimDia #IlloGoudal #SafiFaye #ArianeBruneton #JacquesChabot #MoustaphaAlassane #ethnography #drama #comedy #satire #Paris #France #Niger #1970's/div /section ]]>

Petit à petit [Little by Little] (Jean Rouch, 1970)

Sep

3

Skyscraper Day

Petit à petit (1970)

Damouré (Damouré Zika) measures a Parisian with craniology callipers. No skyscraper in this still, but there's scaffolding. DP: Jean Rouch.

A skyscraper for Skyscraper Day (USA)

 

In the sequel to Rouch's Jaguar (1967), Damouré wants a high rise for his Niger business with “as many floors as he has wives”. He decides to travel to Paris to learn about the construction of such building, and what made Paris to the Paris of today. While there, he gets distracted by the peculiarities of the French natives. Worried about Damouré's increasingly puzzling postcards, his company sends out Lam (Lam Ibrahim Dia) to bring him home.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #SkyscraperDay #skyscrapers #JeanRouch #DamouréZika #LamIbrahimDia #IlloGoudal #SafiFaye #ArianeBruneton #JacquesChabot #MoustaphaAlassane #ethnography #drama #comedy #satire #Paris #France #Niger #1970's

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pn58 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:10:00 +0200 Les Vampires [The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris] (Louis Feuillade,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0c4x <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Les Vampires [The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris] (Louis Feuillade, 1915/1916)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" black/div div class="img" Les Vampires (1915)/div div class="caption" A signed promotional photograph of Irma Vep (Musidora) in her iconic black catsuit. DPs: Georges Guérin & Manichoux./div div class="txt" description Black, in food or fashion "It is vital to be photogenic from head to foot. After that you are allowed to display some measure of talent." ### – Musidora Possibly the first, and definitely the most, iconic catsuit in cinema is worn by Musidora as Irma Vep in Les Vampires. Skintight and scandalous, Musidora's screen presence in the serial further cemented the popularity of the vamp and set the scene for many man-eaters to come. &nbsp; /description the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #black #colours #LouisFeuillade #Musidora #ÉdouardMathé #MarcelLévesque #JeanAymé #FernandHerrmann #StaciaNapierkowska #GeorgesGuérin #Manichoux #SilentFilm #vamps #serial #drama #thriller #crime #mystery #Paris #France #1910s/div /section ]]>

Les Vampires [The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris] (Louis Feuillade, 1915/1916)

Aug

24

black

Les Vampires (1915)

A signed promotional photograph of Irma Vep (Musidora) in her iconic black catsuit. DPs: Georges Guérin & Manichoux.

Black, in food or fashion*

“It is vital to be photogenic from head to foot. After that you are allowed to display some measure of talent.”

– Musidora

Possibly the first, and definitely the most, iconic catsuit in cinema is worn by Musidora as Irma Vep in Les Vampires. Skintight and scandalous, Musidora's screen presence in the serial further cemented the popularity of the vamp and set the scene for many man-eaters to come.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #black #colours #LouisFeuillade #Musidora #ÉdouardMathé #MarcelLévesque #JeanAymé #FernandHerrmann #StaciaNapierkowska #GeorgesGuérin #Manichoux #SilentFilm #vamps #serial #drama #thriller #crime #mystery #Paris #France #1910s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0c4x Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0200 Trois couleurs: Bleu [Three Colors: Blue] (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g5cc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Trois couleurs: Bleu [Three Colors: Blue] (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" cerulean/div div class="img" Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)/div div class="caption" Julie (Juliette Binoche) in a blue wallpapered room, observes blue beads suspended in front of a window with a cerulean sky and ocean behind it. Throughout the story, her clothing changes from white, to black, to the darkest charcoal blue, to Prussian blue. DP: Slawomir Idziak./div div class="txt" Cerulean, or blue: in food or fashion "I'm just fine. I have everything here. I have the TV. You can see the whole world" ### – the mother How could I not pick at least one instalment of Kieślowski's Trois couleurs trilogy. Here's blue, the liberté of the tricolor. Blue occurs as the sky to fall through, the room without life, and the cloth that binds. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #blue #colours #KrzysztofKieślowski #JulietteBinoche #BenoîtRégent #FlorencePernel #ZbigniewPreisner #SlawomirIdziak #romance #drama #trilogy #TroisCouleurs #TrzyKolory #Paris #France #Poland #Switzerland #1990s/div /section ]]>

Trois couleurs: Bleu [Three Colors: Blue] (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

Aug

15

cerulean

Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)

Julie (Juliette Binoche) in a blue wallpapered room, observes blue beads suspended in front of a window with a cerulean sky and ocean behind it. Throughout the story, her clothing changes from white, to black, to the darkest charcoal blue, to Prussian blue. DP: Slawomir Idziak.

Cerulean, or blue: in food or fashion*

“I'm just fine. I have everything here. I have the TV. You can see the whole world”

– the mother

How could I not pick at least one instalment of Kieślowski's Trois couleurs trilogy. Here's blue, the liberté of the tricolor. Blue occurs as the sky to fall through, the room without life, and the cloth that binds.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #blue #colours #KrzysztofKieślowski #JulietteBinoche #BenoîtRégent #FlorencePernel #ZbigniewPreisner #SlawomirIdziak #romance #drama #trilogy #TroisCouleurs #TrzyKolory #Paris #France #Poland #Switzerland #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g5cc Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0200 La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gw65 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" thé/div div class="img" La carrière de Suzanne (1963).png)/div div class="caption" A woman reaches for a silver teapot. We only see her hand. DP: Daniel Lacambre./div div class="txt" "I know. I know you. I know you very well." ### – Suzanne /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #tea #ÉricRohmer #CatherineSée #PhilippeBeuzen #ChristianCharrière #DianeWilkinson #PatrickBauchau #JeanClaudeBiette #JeanLouisComolli #PierreCottrell #DanielLacambre #romance #drama #ComingOfAge #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)

Aug

13

thé

La carrière de Suzanne (1963)

A woman reaches for a silver teapot. We only see her hand. DP: Daniel Lacambre.

“I know. I know you. I know you very well.”

– Suzanne

#FilmDinner #tea #ÉricRohmer #CatherineSée #PhilippeBeuzen #ChristianCharrière #DianeWilkinson #PatrickBauchau #JeanClaudeBiette #JeanLouisComolli #PierreCottrell #DanielLacambre #romance #drama #ComingOfAge #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gw65 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:32:31 +0200 E-clip-se (Chris Marker, 1999) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/e-clip-se-1999 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" E-clip-se (Chris Marker, 1999)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" 1999/div div class="img" E-clip-se (1999).png)/div div class="caption" A young woman or child at the Jardin des plantes de Paris wears protective glasses while looking up in amazement during the August 11, 1999 solar eclipse, her baguette a vague memory. DP: Chris Marker./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #ChrisMarker #documentary #eclipse #bread #baguette #sun #ShortFilm #Paris #France #1990s/div /section ]]>

E-clip-se (Chris Marker, 1999)

Aug

11

1999

E-clip-se (1999)

A young woman or child at the Jardin des plantes de Paris wears protective glasses while looking up in amazement during the August 11, 1999 solar eclipse, her baguette a vague memory. DP: Chris Marker.

#FilmDuJour #August #ChrisMarker #documentary #eclipse #bread #baguette #sun #ShortFilm #Paris #France #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/e-clip-se-1999 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200