The final scenes of Under Paris play out disastrously, as the police ultimately fail to wipe out the sharks before the triathlon begins. As the swimmers breaststroke carelessly through the canal ...

Under Paris there are spaces of all kinds ... young people fleeing the surface world and its rules. Veterans say the scene blossomed in the 1970s and '80s, when traditional Parisian rebelliousness ...

Show them classic Paris scenes—Monet’s “The Boathouse on the Seine,” Marc Chagall’s “Paris Through the Window,” Van Gogh’s “Sidewalk Café at Night.” This gives the makings of ...