Directed by Louis Malle • 1954 • France
In 1954, Louis Malle was a film student at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris, where he shot this rarely seen short, CRAZEOLOGIE. Inspired by the theater of the absurd of such playwrights as Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, the film is punctuated with the Charlie Parker song “Crazeology.”
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Le coup du berger
Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1956 • France
Just before embarking on PARIS BELONGS TO US, Jacques Rivette directed the following 1956 short film about an adulterous wife and her lover’s attempt to figure out how she will explain his gift of a mink coat. Cowritten by fellow French New Wave lumina...
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Le sabotier du Val de Loire
Directed by Jacques Demy • 1956 • France
This 1956 short film by Jacques Demy documents a week in the life of a clog maker in the Loire Valley.
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All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1957 • France
A man makes dates with two women on the same day without realizing that they are best friends.
