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In French with English subtitles. The title translates to Under the Paris Sky.
The anthology or episodic film was a genre that particularly appealed to director
Julien Duvivier. His 1937 film
Un Carnet de Bal (1937) was one of the earliest films of this kind, and during his stay in Hollywood Duvivier made two further anthology films:
Tales of Manhattan (1942) and
Flesh and Fantasy (1943). Towards the end of his career, he gathered together a host of famous French actors for
Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (1962), one of his most entertaining comedies.
Sous le ciel de Paris just about qualifies as an anthology film because it is made up of several separate story strands, but what sets it apart is that these stories are intertwined and form part of a much bigger mosaic depicting the everyday drama of Parisian life. Perhaps it is more accurate to classify this as an example of what is now known in France as the
film choral, a patchwork-quilt kind of film in which the lives of several seemingly unrelated individuals become enmeshed purely by chance.
