Paris Nous Appartient

Alternative title: Paris Belongs to Us
Synopsis: Feature film. Anne Goupil is a student in Paris. She is disturbed when a girl in the next room talks of the mysterious death of a friend, Juan, saying that ‘they’ have killed him and implicating Anne’s brother, Pierre. Anne tells Pierre this and to distract her he takes her to a friend’s party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman, Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry. Philip warns Anne that the forces that killed Juan will soon do the same to Gerard. Gerard is trying to rehearse Shakespeare’s Pericles, although he has no financial backing. Anne takes a part in the play to help Gerard, and to try to discover why Juan died.
Language: French (Standard)
Country: France
Medium: Film
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release: 1960
Duration: 128 mins; 11,520 feet

Director

Jacques Rivette

Producer

Roland Nonin

Cinematographer

Charles L. Bitsch

Screenplay

Jacques Rivette

Cast

Notes: The DVD 2006 release (Region 2 only) includes a new filmed introduction by Jonathan Romney on Rivette and PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT, and a illustrated booklet with a review by Tom Milne and a feature by Louis Marcorelles originally published in Sight and Sound.