Ever wonder if movie magic is just organized chaos with better lighting?
Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestThe end of filming is approaching, everyone is exhausted and Lelouch, as usual, asks his actors to improvise part of a scene.
Isabelle Clarke's follows with her camera the shooting of Claude Lelouch's film Les Parisiens ("The Parisians"). With an artistic and lighthearted vision of a movie set, Isabelle Clarke takes us into the bonding of the family of a film team, which only lasts for a couple of months.
Direction
Clarke's invisible presence lets intimacy bloom naturally
Editing
Weaves 5 episodes into one ephemeral family album
Creator
Isabelle Clarke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title nods to Truffaut's Day for Night — Clarke positions documentary as the new metacinema.
Lelouch shot Les Parisiens in just 5 weeks with non-professional actors, making Clarke's access unusually raw for a veteran director usually protective of his process.
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