by New Yorker Video
Sales Rank: 17995
Price: $29.95
Total flop. Malle has ruined one of the funniest books ever written. Trust me, young friends: read the book instead of trying to watch this botchery. One of the worst Louis Malle films ever -what was he thinking? How can one ruin a book with such hilarious burlesque sujet, characters, dialogue (reads like a film script) and, best, that distilled essence of the 50's Paris
Viewer Reviews Louis Malle's visual sense of humor is wonderful in Zazie, and he seems to have brought off a stylistic translation of Queneau's linguistic sophistication into the visual - since it clearly couldn't be done reasonably in dialogue. I loved the cartoon-parodies (talking Bugs and Wile E. here) and the silliness all-around, with visual and kinetic wit. I've only looked over the beginning of the book in English translation (also impossible); rather different from the film, but vive le difference! (BTW scant traces of C. Demongeot on the Internet except for two minor roles including a Zazie cameo. Mylène is too young to be her mother.)
