Now that I live in Paris, it was fun to watch the locations (especialy the ones I pass often), and the cinematography across all six set pieces is uniformly great; the city, even in its filth, still feels like a place where people really live. Eric Rohmer's un-noir around the Arc de Triomphe is cute, and Chabrol's use of sound (or lack thereof) as a plot device in the final piece was well-done.
But what typically suffers most in a short is the ability to build layers into your characters & narrative, and these all suffer for their lack of a third dimension.
(And to the reviewer who specifically called out Godard's chapter as a personal hit piece on Anna Karina: jeezus, you ain't kidding.)
Now that I live in Paris, it was fun to watch the locations (especialy the ones I pass often), and the cinematography across all six set pieces is uniformly great; the city, even in its filth, still feels like a place where people really live. Eric Rohmer's un-noir around the Arc de Triomphe is cute, and Chabrol's use of sound (or lack thereof) as a plot device in the final piece was well-done.
But what typically suffers most in a short is the ability to build layers into your characters & narrative, and these all suffer for their lack of a third dimension.
(And to the reviewer who specifically called out Godard's chapter as a personal hit piece on Anna Karina: jeezus, you ain't kidding.)
