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A seminal work of the French New Wave, PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT incited Godard, Resnais, Truffaut, Chabrol, Demy, Varda and Melville to issue a statement proclaiming this, Rivette's first feature, “a film of foremost importance for us.” A young woman from the provinces moves to Paris and becomes involved with an American journalist, an exile from McCarthyist persecution in the States. He draws her first into a circle of intellectuals and artists, and then into a sinister conspiracy involving a group who want to control the world (Paris belongs to whom?). Influenced by Fritz Lang, and studded with droll cameos by Godard, Demy, Chabrol and Rivette himself, PARIS is “exemplary . . . a masterpiece of Left Bank paranoia” (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice ). “One of the ten best films of 1961” (Jean-Luc Godard).
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