Paris: 15 cult film scenes filmed in the French capital

Paris has often been the ideal setting to set up your camera. Many French or international films have decided to take the City of Lights as their main or secondary setting. A setting that has often given birth to cult films or scenes. The proof with these 15 examples:

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The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain

Released in 2001 under the direction of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain is a huge classic of French cinema. A cult film that sets its cameras in the French capital. The opportunity for spectators to delve into the backstage of the City of Lights by following Amélie, a young waitress in a Montmartre bar, played by Audrey Tautou. An emblematic work of French cinema, nominated 5 times for the Oscars, and rewarded with 4 Césars including Best Film and Best Director. Jean-Pierre Jeunet perfectly manages to capture the essence of the capital and uses Paris to sign a humanist dramatic comedy that invites us to look more around us.

La Traversée de Paris

Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès. What more do you need? Released in 1956, La Traversée de Paris is the perfect excuse to bring together a trio of iconic actors from French cinema. Exciting political satire, La Traversée de Paris presents the capital in a less sumptuous, more realistic light. Claude Autant-Lara decides to film the poverty that dominates the streets of the capital, to film the hidden face of a city where its inhabitants die of hunger or cold, where deprivation and humiliation are commonplace. In short, he films a Paris far from the glitz and glamour. Fortunately, La Traversée de Parisremains a comedy and reserves some great moments of humor, notably thanks to the presence and the presence of this trio of actors.

Inception

How can we forget this sequence on the Bir-Hakeim bridge? Indeed, Christopher Nolandecides to use Paris as a setting for a long explanatory scene. Leonardo Di Caprio and Ellen Page go to the world of dreams. In this segment, Di Caprio uses the City of Lights to explain to Ellen Page, but also to the spectators, how the film works. How are dreams structured, what can be done in them, how do you get out of them? In short, all the rules of Inception. And what better idea than to take Paris to enter a world of dreams and imagination?

John Wick: Chapter 4

Chad Stahelski uses Paris as the setting for his latest John Wick. The entire end of the film takes place in the capital. The opportunity to see our dear John Wick fight during a crazy sequence around the Arc de Triomphe, but also to fall down the steps of the Sacré Cœur several times. Chad Stahelski uses the City of Lights as a backdrop for killings, violence and meticulous choreography. A perfect setting to conclude the John Wick saga.

Hate

Paris plays a particular role in La Haine. Initially, the story of La Hainetakes place in a deprived suburb. Except that at one point, these city characters decide to move to the capital. The opportunity for Mathieu Kassovitz to change prism, vision, and to place his characters in a larger setting, both more magical but also more mendacious. The filmmaker uses Paris to highlight the social inequalities between city dwellers and suburbanites. A segment that reserves many cult sequences, whether that of the escalator or when the Eiffel Tower goes out in front of our heroes.

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Like Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise goes to Paris in Fallout and offers his spectators a crazy action sequence around the Arc de Triomphe. An exciting segment, punctuated by extremely well-choreographed motorcycle chases. As usual, the Mission Impossible license is a feast for the eyes, and it's even better if it takes place in Paris.

The Devil Wears Prada

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It’s a cult comedy. In 2006, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt reunited for The Devil Wears Prada. A film that is emblematic The iconic comedy of a generation, The Devil Wears Pradacomes to set up its cameras in the French capital. How can we talk about fashion without talking about Paris? But more than the City of Lights itself, it is above all these three actresses who are sublimated in the film.

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Ratatouille

In 2007, Brad Bird decided to use Paris as the setting for the new Pixar: Ratatouille. At the same time, it is quite obvious to see the story of Ratatouille take place in Paris. How to dissociate great cuisine from the megalopolis? How to tell a culinary story without setting your story in a great Parisian restaurant? In addition, Brad Bird diverts the cliché of the filthy city by taking a rat as the protagonist. Where the glamorous side of Paris rubs shoulders with the most unsanitary. Finally, the director of The Iron Giant signs a touching Pixar, extremely well-paced, and which restores its stripes to our culinary capital.

Frantic

You want to see Harrison Ford in Paris? You have to watch Frantic by Roman Polanski. It's an effective thriller, which lacks a little originality, but which has the merit of taking Paris as a game board. Even if the Parisians are not shown in their best light, it's nice to take the capital as a playground for a solid thriller, somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and Tony Scott.

Angel-A

This is clearly not Luc Besson's most famous film. And yet, it is undoubtedly one of his best, in any case his most atypical. Led by Jamel Debbouze and Rie Rasmussen, Angel-A offers a new approach to Paris, one of a kind. In a black and white aesthetic almost borrowed from graphic novels, Paris is filmed only at night, in a phantasmagorical atmosphere that suits it perfectly. The moon, the fog, the stars, the lights of the street lamps, the unique atmosphere of Angel-A leaves a lasting impression. This is one of Jamel Debbouze's best roles, and the film tells a very pretty love story between a young underprivileged man and an angel fallen from the sky. More poetic you die.

Moulin Rouge!

Paris is also about partying. And Baz Luhrmann has understood this well. With Moulin Rouge! he brings together Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregorin a party lasting more than 2 hours. He places his story at the end of the 19th century, in the Paris of the Belle Époque, and plunges a young poet into a world of sex, drugs and French cancan. The opportunity to go back in time and immerse yourself in a Montmartre in full decadence, totally free, without shame or worries. The bohemian life, in other words.

Midnight to Paris

If anyone should set up their cameras in Paris, it's Woody Allen. The king of romantic cinema couldn't pass up the opportunity to tell a love story in the City of Lights. Led by a totally crazy international cast, Midnight in Paris is a touching, reassuring, warm film, which speaks of love, the real one, the one with a capital A. It speaks to us of love, of relationships, but also of solitude, of art, of celebrity by offering a plot on several branches of reality with a whole historical subplot. The character of Owen Wilson walks in the footsteps of the greatest French writers. The opportunity to take a superb tour of Paris through the prism of writing. Fascinating!

Breathless

In 1960, Jean-Luc Godard decided to put Paris at the center of his new film: Breathless. It's hard to forget the haunting and talkative strolls of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Sebergon the Champs Elysées. One plays a charming thug, the other a little American student looking for new experiences. The opportunity to see Paris in a warm light, as a welcoming city, cosmopolitan, full of diversity, perfect for discoveries and first times. French charm.

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

In 1991, Leos Carax brought together Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche for a love story on the Pont-Neuf. A touching and spontaneous love story between two vagabonds who love to dance, vibrate and spin under the lights of Paris. Without doubt one of Juliette Binoche's best roles, nominated for a César for the occasion.

Paris, I love you!

A declaration of love from cinema to Paris. Here, the city is celebrated at every moment. Some of the greatest international directors have come together in this choral film to declare their love for Paris. A letter of nobility to the management of the French capital. Bruno Podalydès, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alfonso Cuaron, Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven and Alexander Payne have all directed a segment of Paris, je t’aime !Classy all the same.