Zazie in the Metro

1960 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Fantasy

6
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 7211 7.2K

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Plot summary

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

Director

Louis Malle Photo
Louis Malle

Top cast

Odette Piquet Photo
Odette Piquet as La mère de Zazie
Jacques Gheusi Photo
Jacques Gheusi as Le gérant
Little Bara Photo
Little Bara as Permanent
Alegrina Photo
Alegrina as Permanent
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851.77 MB
956*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 1
1.54 GB
1424*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by marioonline 7 / 10

The origins of Amelie Poulain

A product of the French New Wave, this movie is more than 40 years old, but it still has the powers to make you leave your mouth open, either to laugh or just to be in awe. Extremely different from anything you can find on the screens today, "Zazie" is able to entertain you even without a coherent plot or a bunch of lines that make sense. A dark-short-haired witty little girl goes around an extremely colorful Paris meeting unusual and funny people. Does this remind you of anything? Actually "Zazie" had already gone beyond the borders of the land that would be explored by "Amelie" 40 years later. Maybe this means that the future is behind our backs? It is time to turn around.
Reviewed by Rindiana 9 / 10

Beware of the Child

This has to be seen to be believed! Malle seems just as well to be the victim of Zazie's dark whirlwind surrealism as the audience themselves. Never again achieved an adolescent movie character such an anarchic quality. Despite all the displays of technical outrageousness and pure buffoonery, the pic never feels as superficially sketch-like as many of Dick Lester's works. And the complete lack of warmheartedness is a relief in a picture featuring a young girl! Now that's a truly original way to declass French bourgeoisie and throw an anti-Fascist pie in their faces! And it's one of the few hommages to silent comedy (amongst sundry allusions to cinema and social topics) that really work. And it's one of Malle's best.9 out of 10 polar bears
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