Paris would not exist without its roof. To realize just contemplate the city from a gazebo placed at heights. We immediately notice a uniformity in the height of buildings here and there broken by numerous domes emerging from the roofs and chimneys. We also note that these domes overlooking Parisian rooftops punctuate their gilding the glittering gray sheet of attics.
I walk on the roofs of Paris, discover the city from above, I look at a ledge to better see the milling crowds below, see the smoking chimneys and breath odors that escape. I would spend hours contemplating the pierced roof skylights and chimneys bristling emitting wisps of smoke to keep my eyes get lost in this beautiful gray mouse that seems to support the sky.
geometrized roofs of buildings and still taking shape on a sky background always changing and unpredictable. This Paris in height, far from the teeming city at my feet, the show gives me an overview of zinc roofs of sight that makes me lose all my bearings. They are dripping with rain in winter days or summer evenings blushing, without them, Paris would not have the same soul.
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Decor chases, or dream sequences, the roofs of Paris were inspired by classic films and also many lesser known films.
Who is not charmed by the panoramic view of the city from the Eiffel Tower, the top of Montmartre or the terrace of the Centre Pompidou? There is undoubtedly a poetics of Parisian rooftops that the filmmakers are quick to shoot. The coating zinc roofs of Paris gives a unit that disrupts the happy accidents of scale between buildings and that strengthens the relative homogeneity of heights. Paris is a city of coffee brewed from which emerge a few laps in the thirteenth arrondissement, Belleville and the Front de Seine. Haussmann buildings, or so called, have mansard roofs, which are reserved for maids' rooms. Y lodge, originally used the bourgeois families of the other stages, but also students, apprentices and artists stubbornly ignored ...
window of a garret given to see the city as a television picture, framed, not always clear, but engaging and mysterious. The aerial view of the city gives it both a power close to the dizziness and worthy of a calm lake. Yet, a little is enough to break the stillness and to multiply the tumult of the city: the flash off of a neon tears the night, the cavalcade of a group of taggers, rain hitting the slopes of the roofs of its repeated blows .... The film does not forget its affiliation with the magic lantern and does not hesitate to place a high roof of his delusions.
Decor chases between cops and robbers ( The thief of lightning Paul Grimault, 1945), improvised chamber for a couple of lovers ( Paris qui dort, René Clair, 1923), field of terrorist ( Pierrot le fou Jean-Luc Godard, 1965), unexpected area for a picnic ( tenant , Roman Polanski, 1976), playing the cello ( Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991) or thrash (Thousand thousandths , Remi Waterhouse, 2002), the roof symbolically participates in the seizure of the cosmos and Paris can embrace the entire city, its domes, bulbs, its steeples and sometimes discovered hanging gardens, cabins incongruous growths more or less legal.
There is also a famous song called "Sous le ciel de Paris", repeated here by Juliette Greco.
The French lyrics and their translations into English on the site ...
http://poemasenfrances.blogspot.com/2000/05/edith-piaf-sous-le-ciel-de-paris.html
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