Released on: 1928-04-29
Ătudes sur Paris
"Paris, Paris, you know, I would eat it..." wrote AndrĂ© Sauvage. An artist close to the avant-gardes, AndrĂ© Sauvage composed the first great filmed portrait of Paris. Its ambitious symphony of a big city marries, on the music composed by Jeff Mills, the changing rhythm of the Belle Ăpoque. Contemporary of the dizzying explorations of Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann, Sauvage is less fascinated by speed than by the repertoire of urban mobility, attentive to the neighborhoods he crosses, always curious about their furtive inhabitants. He draws a portrait of Paris in five studies: Paris-Port, North-South, the islands of Paris, the Little Belt and from the Saint-Jacques tower to the Sainte-GeneviĂšve mountain.
