A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers.
Acting
Bezançon's face does what pages of dialogue can't.
Direction
Hanoun strips cinema to its desperate bones.
Director
Marcel Hanoun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hanoun shot this for pocket change during the French New Wave's explosion, yet critics ignored him for decades while praising prettier poverty.
The 68-minute runtime isn't artistic choice—it's economic necessity. Hanoun literally couldn't afford more film stock, making the mother's desperation meta-textual.
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