One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor.
Direction
Sassy's obsessive close-ups on ticking mechanisms
Production
Paris frozen in amber — 1970 never looked so still
Director
Jean-Paul Sassy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pierre Fresnay performed all his own clock-winding close-ups after three months of training with actual horologists.
Released during France's May 1968 hangover, critics read the frozen world as commentary on stalled revolutionary dreams.
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