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Bookmark this pageParis qui Dort (1923)
Director: René Clair
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The first feature of director-writer-novelist-Dadaist René Clair resembles his better-known short 'Entr'acte' in its manic comic invention and its all-round energetic absurdity. It starts out with a crazed inventor perfecting a ray that suspends animation throughout Paris, and then has a great deal of fun tracing the paths of a handful of 'survivors' through the frozen city. The prolific jokes about motion and stasis are fundamentally movie concept gags, and they relate directly to contemporary avant-garde film concerns.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: René Clair
Producer: Maurice Diamant-Berger
Cast: Henri Rollan, Madeleine Rodrigue, Marcel Vallée, Albert Préjean, Charles Martinelli full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 5 mins
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