L’amour exixte
Directed by Maurice Pialat
Written by Maurice Pialat
1960/France
Les Films de la Pleiade
First viewing/YouTube
[box] Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. William S. Burroughs [/box]
This poetically depressing documentary short contrasts the squalor of post-War inner city Paris with the sterility of its suburbs.
If beauty and scathing sociological critique can occupy the same frame this film manages it. The narration tells a sad tale of millions of Parisians living without concert halls, parks, or schools on the outer fringes of the city while mindlessly working for the Man. The score is sad and beautiful as well.
Montage of stills accompanied by music from the film
