The Chasers

Two young men spend a whole night walking around Paris trying to meet women. One is shy and is genuinely looking for someone; the other is sure of himself and treats the thing as a matter of numbers. As the night goes on they run into every mishap imaginable, and what either of them is actually after grows unclear. The film keeps a record of a Paris night at the end of the fifties and does not turn the search into a success story. The women they come across do not stay at the edge of the account either; each of them appears as a person living her own life and making her own decisions. Jacques Charrier and Charles Aznavour appear in Jean-Pierre Mocky’s seventy eight minute French film, completed in 1959.