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NUEVA ONDA MOVIE NIGHTS PRESENTS RARE SCREENING
OF LOUIS MALLE'S ZAZIE DANS LE METRO
The Nueva Onda Movie Nights, one of Austin's
most micro microcinema venues, is pleased to
announce a rare screening of a groundbreaking
movie by legendary French director Louis Malle,
who also directed The Lovers, Atlantic City, and My Dinner With Andre.
Never available on DVD in this country,
Zazie dans le Metro (Zazie In The Metro, 1960)
kicks off a regular feature at NOMN called
Unrentable. It will spotlight movies that have
fallen through the digital cracks in the U.S.
Though available on DVD in other countries, most
of these films cannot be played on standard
American DVD players due to region restrictions
and frame-rate incompatibility. Possible future
titles in this series include David Holzman's
Diary, The Green Man, and Signore & Signori.
Zazie dans le Metro is a comedy that uses
Paris about a foul-mouthed country girl and her
eccentric uncle who gambol about Paris on a
series of ever more lunatic adventures. Malle
rewrote the rules of movie style with rapid
editing and a pop-art pallette of bright colors.
The movie gleefully ignores rules of time and
space, and it is saturated in blithe disrepect
for good manners, common sense, and conventionality.
Historians generally acknowledge that many
of the techniques that were surprising to
Anglophone audiences in movies such as A Hard
Day's Night have their origin in Zazie. It is
based on a novel by Raymond Queneau, a leading
light of experimental French writing in the Fifties and Sixties.
Zazie dans le Metro stars reknowned French
movie star Philippe Noiret, who went on to star
in Life And Nothing But and Cinema Paradiso among
many other memorable films, in one of his first
roles -- he was only two days shy of 30 when the
movie was released in France. Appearing in the
title role is Catherine Demongeot, who made an
indelible imprint on cinema history with this one
role and, aside from a few small parts, did not
pursue movie acting. (Trivia: Demongeot briefly
reprised the role of Zazie in a cameo in Jean-Luc
Godard's Une Femme Est Une Femme.)
Zazie dans le Metro is 89 minutes long,
subtitled in English. It will be preceded by a
short, also rarely screened in the U.S. -- Claude
Lelouch's C'était un rendez-vous, which lasts for
nine pulse-pounding minutes. Subtitled.
See attached jpegs for stills from Zazie dans le Metro.
1. Original poster
2. Catherine Demongeot as Zazie
3. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret
(center), and unidentified commuter.
4. Philippe Noiret as Uncle Gabriel savors a
rare moment of peace and quiet in Louis Malle's Zazie dans le Metro.
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The Nueva Onda Movie Nights is a FREE, fan-cooled
monthly movie screening held rain-or-shine, 8 pm,
on the covered patio at Nueva Onda restaurant,
2218 College, just northwest of Oltorf and S.
Congress. Our volunteers show award-winning indie
shorts, docs, and features from around the
world... but of course we love to host Austin
filmmakers. Find out more about us, sponsor NOMN,
volunteer to guest-curate, or submit films at
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