Louis Malle and a small camera crew stroll up and down a Paris street interviewing French citizens in this example of spontaneous film making.
Shot over a period of around 10 days, Malle attempts to interview people about their lives and interests. This could have been an awful film but as it turns out to be a pretty fascinating one. It's amazing how personal people get with Malle when there is a camera and a microphone pointed in front of them.
Considering some of the nut balls that Malle interviews and particularly one right wing nut case, he is incredibly nonjudgmental. Amusingly, one woman being interviewed is the daughter of an actress that Malle had worked with, she can't say enough bad things about her mother.
This is not a perfect film, some of the interviews kind of ramble and it does have some slow spots. But considering the challenge of a film like this, it's a fairly successful premise for a documentary.
94 minutes.
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