movie poster for ZAZIE DANS LE METRO

Flicks ID

13532

Cert

12

Running time

88 mins

Language

Format

DVD

ZAZIE DANS LE METRO (1960)

LOUIS MALLE

Plot

Those who have read the original book will love the film adaptation. Zazie, a little French girl, visiting Paris and staying with her uncle (Ton-Ton) dreams of doing only one thing: Riding the Paris Metro. But as luck has it, the Metro is on strike and instead Zazie finds herself in the mad day and night life of 1960s Paris. She meets all sorts of crazy adults that go through adult problems, like bi-sexuality, love, loss of youth and beauty, even perversion and greed...all these characters she either loves, hates or simply drives them crazy in poignant way that only a child can get away with.