ROSE S'EST PARIS is a piece about Paris that was neither a documentary nor an exercise in nostalgia, but was instead built on a fiction in which the city would play the role more of muse than of subject, and would appear, via the characters playing their parts in a story, in an almost allegorical form.
A young woman whom we know only by her initial, B., is looking for her twin sister, Rose, who she claims has gone missing. This is the starting point of a kind of initiatory quest for the Other and for Herself, which serves as the pretext for multiple evocations and images.
The Paris in black-and-white that we have chosen is the city of the origins of Surrealism. In the first scenes we see the elusive shadow of Fantômas hovering over the hill of Montmartre where Souvestre and Allain dreamed up their dangerous and protean hero ("I am the master of time," he said. "I am Death.", who, thanks to Apollinaire (founder of a Society of Friends of Fantômas) and above all the films of Louis Feuillade, inspired a whole generation of artists and poets with his fecund crimes: Magritte, Cocteau, Max Jacob, Breton, Desnos, René Clair…