Zazie dans le metro: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] Reviews

There is a moment in Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro where one character turns to another and describes his day as “a reverie within a dream.” What better way would there be to describe this zany, surreal comedic satire than that? Malle jumps head first into the French New Wave movement with a movie that breaks all of the rules and does so with relish. Seen today, the satirical edge is the least part of the experience. Rather, the absolute craziness of the conception and execution tramples nonstop over everyone and everything in its path. It’s a mixture of Mack Sennett farce with Tom and Jerry hijinks all with a modern (for 1960, that is) sass and a take-no-prisoners attitude that dares the audience not to like it. And truth be told, the overriding tone is that if you don’t like it, it’s your problem. This is one film that doesn’t genuflect for the audience’s embrace. 

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