Four French bombshells, one 12-minute time machine to 1964 Paris.
In 1964, on the request of UniFrance, writer and director Philippe Labro filmed four young actresses – Mireille Darc, Marie Dubois, Catherine Deneuve, and Françoise Dorléac – in order to promote these young talents around the world. He took a free approach to the project, trying to capture the personality of each one, while also providing a vision of Paris as the quintessential backdrop of French cinema.
Cinematography
Paris streets that look impossibly golden and untouristed.
Production
Propaganda that accidentally became genuine portraiture.
Director
Philippe Labro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Françoise Dorléac died in a car accident just three years later; this footage captures her at 21, eternally poised on the edge of stardom.
UniFrance commissioned this to sell French cinema abroad, yet Labro's loose, almost improvised approach accidentally predicted the vérité revolution happening in documentary at the time.
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