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Free Film Screening 'Paris qui dort' (The Crazy Ray)

02 December 2025
Maison Française d'Oxford

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Directed by René Clair, 1923, 59min

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This event is free and open to everyone, but online booking is required.
To attend this event, please register here.

Film in French with English subtitles.

With Henri Rollan, Albert Prejean

The night watchman of the Eiffel Tower realizes one morning that Paris has not woken up… Only a small number of people arriving in the city by plane are spared from this strange fate.


Restoration note: 4K restoration carried out by the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in 2018 at the L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with the support of the CNC.
Credit: Paris qui dort (René Clair) © 1925 - Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé - Succession René Clair