The best thing in an otherwise ordinary film is this simple one-shot device for showing a plane journey from Paris to an outpost in Mali. The other maps in the film are far less interesting: 
An explorer's map is the narrative pretext, but other than the cinemap of the journey across Africa, which the film returns to twice, the only map we see is this: 
... and a glimpse of a globe: 
      After pointing to relevant locales on the map of France, Moullet's New Wave documentary (reflexive, intertextual, montage-driven, jumpcutting) about abandoned or near-abandoned villages uses regional maps to fix exactly the places filmed, and to illustrate movement from one place to another:            Two maps in the mise-en-scène, in schoolrooms, serve as counterpoint to the maps in the montage:   |
