A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on
Six in Paris (originally
Paris vu Par...)
Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (
Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (
Barbara Wilkin).
Jean Rouch's "Gare du Nord" is a haunting twist-of-fate tale involving a suicidal handsome stranger (
Gilles Queant). Written and directed by
Jean-Daniel Pollet, "Rue Saint-Denis" unites an experienced prostitute (
Micheline Dax) with a garrulous customer (
Claude Melki). "Place de l'Etoile," a Chekhovian guilt trip involving salesman
Jean-Michael Rouziere and shabby, supposedly dead street person
Marcel Gallon, was
Eric Rohmer's contribution.
Jean-Luc Godard's "Montparnasse-Levallois," photography by American documentary filmmaker
Albert Maysles, finds
Joanne Shimkus in an imaginary menage a trois.
Six in Paris is topped off by
Claude Chabrol's "La Muette," wherein a family man (played by
Chabrol himself) comes to grief when he purchases a pair of earplugs. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide