The Seine Meets Paris

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

00:00:38 Photography by André Dumaitre and Philippe Brun

00:00:55 Ensemble conducted by the composer

00:01:07 Laboratory: L.T.C. Sound: Studio Marignan

00:02:09 "It's a river," answers a child...

00:02:21 The Seine is like a person sometimes she runs and rushes past...

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

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

00:04:19 ...of old bedsteads abandoned, reclaimed.

00:09:02 "She has the voice of youth", says a woman in love, smiling...

00:09:18 ...in a stained boiler suit streaked with oil and sun and smoke.

00:09:31 ...caprice, bitchiness, idleness.

00:14:10 ...of a correct and blasé man...

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

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

00:14:49 A waterway like any other waterway.

00:15:02 ...or the Amazon or Moselle, the Rhine, the Thames or the Nile.

00:27:53 "A river like the River Love...

00:28:05 ...you speak as if I'm indifferent. It isn't a river, the Seine...

00:28:16 The Louvre, Tuileries, Eiffel and Pointue Towers...

00:28:32 ...you have to be short on memory to call it distress, misery or despair...

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

00:30:05 ...once...

00:30:44 The End