A broke sculptor peddling newspapers to drunk Americans in 1950s Paris? C'est la vie.
An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The New York Herald Tribune, at night, to his compatriots. A look at the bohemian Parisian life of the fifties.
Cinematography
Paris at night never looked this beautifully bleak
Direction
Cavalier captures a whole era in seventeen minutes
Director
Alain Cavalier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures the tail end of the 'Lost Generation' expatriate dream, when Paris was still cheap enough for starving artists.
Derroll Adams was actually an American folk musician who moved to Europe in the 1950s—art imitating life, or vice versa?
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