Paris Does Not Exist (1969) Paris n’existe pas | Region-Free (DVD)

Title: Paris Does Not Exist (1969)

Alternate Title: Paris n’existe pas

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Plot Synopsis:
An artist attends a party, smokes some dope, and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time.

Cast and Crew:

• Director: Robert Benayoun
• Writer: Robert Benayoun
• Cast:
  • Danièle Gaubert as Angela
  • Serge Gainsbourg as Laurent
  • Richard Leduc as Simon
  • Denise Péron as Mme Petersen
  • Henri Déus as Philibert

IMDb Link:
Paris Does Not Exist (1969)

Reviews from Letterboxd:

1. Filipe Furtado – ★★★☆☆
   “A very typical French fantasy, only it is about a flaneur after smoking some weed. Benayoun formal control is quite good particular in suggesting a world that slight detached from reality.”
2. Jon M. – ★★★☆☆
   “The instinct is to search for some comparison to Jerry Lewis, portrayed in Benayoun’s exceptional criticism as a similar kind of modernist, but my immediate reaction was to think of this as an inversion of Clair’s Paris Qui Dort: where that film is interested in the camera’s ability to freeze time and hold it still, this one is intrigued with its animation of otherwise still objects.”
3. Lee Zachariah – ★★★★☆
   “It’s a bit Chris Marker, it’s a bit Jan Švankmajer, it’s a bit Shane Carruth. It’s also a bit brilliant. An existential genre film that leans on the philosophical without ever abandoning the tangible. One of the best time travel (sort of) films I’ve seen.”

Meta Description:
“Paris Does Not Exist” (1969), also known as “Paris n’existe pas,” is a French drama directed by Robert Benayoun. The film follows an artist who, after smoking at a party, gains the ability to see into the future and the past, leading to increasingly intense psychedelic experiences.