Zazie dans le Métro (1960) on Netflix
Zazie, ten, is left with her uncle Gabriel in Paris for a weekend. She wants a ride on the Métro, but a strike has closed the stations.
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Plot summary
At a Paris railway station, Zazie's mother hands the ten-year-old over to her brother Gabriel and leaves with a new lover. Gabriel's friend Charles drives them in his taxi to Turandot's café, above which Gabriel lives with his wife Albertine. Zazie asks for a ride on the Métro. The workers are striking, so no trains run and every station is shut. Turandot is shocked by the child's language.
Cast
- Antoine Roblotas Charles
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's indoor scenes were dominated by the electric advertising light outside the windows, an idea Klein took from his own earlier film, Broadway by Light.
- Characters in the film call a building the Sainte-Chapelle, but the building actually used is the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.
