French Film Noir: “Dizzying, Dynammic Duvivier!” Double Feature

You’re invited to a double feature of French noir films. Under The Paris Sky: Julien Duvivier, the king of “sketch” narrative in film, takes his technique to new levels of intricacy and design in this audacious, freewheeling collision of stories that capture an indelible constellation of Parisian life. Henrietta’s Holiday: Michel Auclair and Hildegard Knef give us the “bad,” each tempting the “goody-goodys” whom they randomly encounter, while the battling screenwriters threaten to turn the story topsy-turvy as the characters spin their way erratically toward the landscape of their desires.