Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
Directed by Louis Malle
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
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Still in the getting-to-know-each-other stage, George takes Sally to see a revival of Louis Malle's "Zazie dans le métro."
Soon enough, smitten George and the more wordly Sally are skipping school to eat takeout noodles and to catch a revival-house matinee of Louis Malle's "Zazie dans le Metro."
Ayoade wasn’t keen when I tried to align his seaside-set Swansea, Wales “Submarine” alongside the wittily ironic movies of the great, long-silent Scots writer-director Bill Forsyth, but “New Wave” perked up his ears, and he cited Louis Malle’s “Zazie dans le Metro,” based on the linguistically antic novel by Raymond Queneau as key.
Gondry, who even takes a wee rim shot at Bushian “age of terror” trauma, briskly echoes some of the fabled effronteries of the French New Wave's “Pierrot Le Fou,” “Jules et Jim” and “Zazie dans le Metro.”