Paris Ville-cinéma

Everything about this film is simple. It shows well-known and marginal facets of Paris as city of cinema and images – from the Cinémathèque Francaise to the erotic VDT work flourishing at the time (no picture reading room like in the Vidéotèque, but dialogs at the Minitel-screen here as well). A stock-taking in the late eighties, restricted by location. [...] In the studio discussion concerning four attempts to film a Baudelaire short story, Farocki , whose contribution is Brunner ist dran (1973), lets it slip that the story is of course one of Baudelaire's minor works. Referring to the film's co-director Farocki, this could also be said to be true of Kinostadt Paris. Nevertheless, the film is one of the simplest and thus most pleasing, in short one of the most cineastic of his works.