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René Clair - Paris qui dort AKA Paris asleep (1925)

A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.

A man (Henri Rollan) lives in the Eiffel Tour. A morning he wakes up early and decides to take a walk by the street of Paris...but he realises that it's not the usual Paris but a diserted city. Little by little he sees some people that are like asleep, but they're really paralized. At the airport a plain arrives from Marseilles. It's passengers are a group of colorfull characters that soon encounter that all the people are paralized. When the truth is discovered, these characters will learn that a crazy cientist has developed a mistery ray that has paralized not only Paris but the hole world.

The ray has no efect on some heights witch explains why these colorfull characters and Rollan have not suffered this event.
The merit of the plot (of René Clair, his first movie) is that none of the subjects offered along this feature comes to bore the audience. The idea of a man alone is an empty city or the internal fights that rize on a small group of survivor are correctly balanced and never sease to provoque a smile.




Size    350MB
Language    Silent

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