Paris, like it is in the Movies

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Attention Parisphiles! There is a new smartphone application on the block to take you on a cinematic journey through the city you love. Cinemacity is a new website and free application that allows users to rediscover Paris through iconic movie scenes filmed around the city. You can view film clips and screen stills pinpointed by location on the cinemacity map and filter movies by release date, director or the neighbourhood in which they were filmed.

Breathless, 1960 (and I want her t-shirt)

By downloading the smartphone app, you can access a list of “cinewalks” to accompany you on a stroll through a neighbourhood, and guide you from one geolocated movie clip to another. At any moment, no matter where you are in the city, you can use the application to see cinewalks and film locations available around you.

Cinemacity also produces fictional cinewalks in various quartiers of Paris, bringing new imaginative stories to the city. The website encourages aspiring film makers (or amateurs) to submit their own episodes, too.

Inception 2010

The handy application for film buffs and Paris lovers alike is conveniently free and available in English, French and German.
Click here to browse the site, starting off with a clip from a Jean Luc Goddard film Breathless, filmed on the Champs Elysées in 1960.
Here are a few “then & now” shots from the iconic film, Le Ballon Rouge (1956), from Flickr.





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