The Seine Meets Paris

00:00:07 This film won the award for Best Short Film...

00:00:44 Assistant directors: Guy Blanc and Claude Souef

00:01:02 Harpsichord furnished by Pleyel Costumes: Pierre Balmain

00:02:01 ...and yet always coming...

00:02:17 "And the river is called the Seine while the city is called Paris."

00:02:34 ...and always breaks into laughter...

00:04:06 Up and downstream always the same turning handle...

00:04:22 The Seine is a factory.

00:09:07 A woman from the ÎIe des Cygnes, telling herself the same in her dreams.

00:09:27 That's the way she is...

00:14:06 ...is a river like any other," says a disenchanted voice...

00:14:20 ...a river with eddies from sewers...

00:14:40 ...and slips away like a cat.

00:14:52 Water from glaciers and torrents...

00:15:09 ...Iike the River Love, sings the broadening Seine...

00:27:58 ...says a lord of the barges, a summer visitor on the Rapee quay.

00:28:14 ...my life's holidays.

00:28:28 ...and when it runs cold and naked, howling complaints against strangers...

00:29:51 ...when I withdraw from the business of life...

00:30:08 ...there once was love...