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Scenes on Every Floor

The 1904–1905 Pathé short Un coup d’œil par étage (literally “A Glance on Each Floor”) is an inventive early comedy that presents a whimsical peek into life across multiple apartments in a single building. It plays with cinematic point-of-view and narrative structure in a way that was novel at the time. The film cuts between brief vignettes on each apartment floor: a man at a phone, a pillow fight between children, an elderly lady with a cat—and finally, a resident scrambling to extinguish curtains that have caught fire. Structured as a vertical tour ("par étage"), the short runs about 6 minutes in restored screenings and was featured in retrospectives on early cinem

Scenes on Every Floor

NR 1904
The Hussy

Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the oddness of the way she expresses her affection. For reasons which never become clear, François kidnaps Mado, and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. Instead of feeling fear, Mado enters into the spirit of the abduction, and they joust with one another, increasingly finding love and comfort in their relationship. When the police come upon them, however, they put an entirely different interpretation on their behavior.

The Hussy

6.8 1979
Happy Night

Xin is a young girl who, after the death of her parents, decides to leave China to discover the world. To finance his trip, Xin works and sleeps in a supermarket in the suburbs of Paris. Her quest is hampered and her life put in danger. She first comes up against the passion that her new boss, Yin Chen, has for her, desperate not to be able to possess her. Preventing the regular theft of the warehouse, she then becomes the target of two of her colleagues ready to do anything to eliminate her.

Happy Night

NR 2021