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

Name: Free Film Screening 'Paris qui dort' (The Crazy Ray)
Start: 2025-12-02T20:00:00+0000
End: 2025-12-02T20:00:00+0000

02 December 2025

Maison Française d'Oxford

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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