Oedipus arrives in Thebes and finds a devastated city, where the young men are devoured by a monstrous beast, the Sphinx. He decides to deliver the inhabitants of this plague installed on the roof of a building.
A seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961), along with new interviews with co-director Edgar Morin and some of the film’s participants.
Odile (segment "Gare du Nord")
누벨바그 시대의 주요 감독들이 파리의 여섯 구역을 무대로 만든 옴니버스 영화. 장 두셰는 카페 플로르를 무대로 젊은이들의 얘기를 다루고, 장 루슈의 ‘북역’은 롱 테이크의 실험적 사용으로 주목받았으며, 장 다니엘 폴레는 집창촌으로 소문난 생 드니 가의 싸구려 호텔에서 일어나는 일을 그린다. 보행자들이 걷기 불편한 에투알 광장에서 장 마르크가 겪는 불행을 보여주는 에릭 로메르와 몽파르나스와 르발루아에 사는 두 남자 사이에서 고민하는 한 여인의 이야기를 그린 고다르, 부모의 다툼을 더 이상 참을 수 없어 하는 16구의 고등학생을 주인공으로 삼은 클로드 샤브롤의 작품도 볼 만 하다.
In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger.
One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
Daniele
A film in four episodes presenting teenage girls chosen as representative of their country and our time, in Italy, France, Japan and Canada. In spite of the stylistic peculiarities of the filmmakers, we find in each of them the same desire not to affirm anything, not to judge, but to quite simply show.
Nadine
An aimless young woman is sent home from school with nothing to do. Drifting through the streets of Paris, she comes across a variety of people.
Herself
Paris, summer of 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, along with sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin, both assisted by Marceline and Nadine, roam the crowded streets asking ordinary people how they deal with the misfortunes of life. Are you happy? But their real purpose is to find out if people can speak sincerely in front of a camera and how they react when they are later invited to analyze the meaning of their answers.
Herself
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
