Review of Zazie in the Metro

Unusual Malle. The film is good, it goes by relatively fast, it has that early nouvelle vague charm that i find very difficult not to be amazed by and is overall a lot of fun. I have some complains about it though. Some of the jokes, namely the restaurant destruction one, seem gratuitous and go on for a lot more time than they actually should. Other than that i think i don't really like the way women are portrayed in this, i mean, Zazie is great and i love the way they made her smart and shameless, but like le quatre cent coups her mother is a bit demonized. So instead of showing how smart and cool Zazie is, the film actually seems to show that this sort of behaviour was caused by her mother's carelessness. So in the end, the best thing about this film, that being Zazie's character is canceled out by a moralistic kind of misogynistic undertone.

But anyway, really good, fun film, and if you can ignore the traditional family values undertone you might enjoy it even more than i did.