a map of Out 1
The known Paris locations of Jacques Rivette's 13-hour, 8-episode serial or series (not a film, despite the persistent legend) are plotted on the map above. The more important locations are marked with a star. (For all of the maps in Out 1 see here.)
Below, the locations on the map above are identified, grouped according to general area.
Below, the locations on the map above are identified, grouped according to general area.
cafés on the Champs Elysées
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In episodes 1 and 2 Colin (Jean-Pierre Léaud) hands out sealed envelopes in Le Deauville (75 avenue des Champs Elysées), Le Longchamp (no. 39) and a café at no. 33 the name of which at the time I haven't yet found (it's now a Pizza Pino). Colin retuns to Le Deauville in episode 8.
theatres near the boulevard de Clichy
The rehearsal space used by the troupe led by Thomas (Michael Lonsdale) is, as we see in episode 5, just off the rue Caulaincourt. Possibly it is part of the Gaumont Palace, still functioning as a cinema but soon to be demolished.
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The space used by the troupe led by Lili (Michèle Moretti) is the Théâtre Ouvert, cité Véron, just behind the Moulin Rouge on the boulevard de Clichy. We see membres of the troupe go down into the métro at the Place de Clichy station.
The roof of the theatre is where Frédérique (Juliet Berto) meets Lucie (Françoise Fabian). It is also where Frédérique is killed by Renaud (Alain Libolt). |
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place de la Bastille
In the first four episodes Frédérique is repeatedly seen near the place de la Bastille, either in nearby cafés or restaurants (mostly the Dupont-Bastille at 1 boulevard Beaumarchais) or on the street.
In episode 2 there are three inserts of views from the place de la Bastille:
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The last time Frédérique is on the place de la Bastille she goes down the boulevard Bourdon, alongside the canal. Here she is accosted by a man who looks very much like Jean Eustache:
le quartier Latin
Frédérique lives in at 9 rue Blainville, near the place de la Contrescarpe. We don't see the exterior of her building, but the exact location can be determined by cross-referencing the views from her three windows:
In episode 5 Lili had enquired after Renaud at an antiques shop at 102 rue Mouffetard. In episode 6 Frédérique meets Renaud in a café at 283 rue Saint Jacques:
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1e + 2e arrondissements
In episode 4 Colin is ejected three times from the offices of Paris Jour, 37 rue du Louvre, top left on the map:
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Colin is seen reading or reciting on three different streets in these two arrondissements, the rue d'Argout, 2e (twice, episode 4), the rue de la Grande Truanderie, 1e (episode 4) and the rue Tiquetonne, 2e (episode 5):
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In episode 3 Colin had deciphered an address he should go to, 2 place Sainte Opportune, 1e:
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Montparnasse
The location for the shop that is supposed to be at 2 place Sainte Opportune is in Montparnasse, at 7 rue du Maine:
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This is next to the square Gaston-Baty, which is where, in episode 5, Pauline (Bulle Ogier), on leaving the shop, meets Warok (Jean Bouisse):
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Warok is again in Montparnasse in episode 6 when, at the terrace of La Coupole, he is approached by Frédérique:
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East of Montparnasse, near the Sèvres-Lecourbe métro station, Colin makes a phone call to his parents (episode 3):
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Frédérique meets Renaud in the parc Montsouris, south of Montparnasse (episode 7):
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palais de Chaillot + l'île aux Cygnes
Béatrice (Edwine Moatti) meets the ethnologist (Michel Delahaye) twice on the roof of the Palais de Chaillot, the first time (episode 2) they are on the south side, overlooking the Eiffel Tower, the second (episode 7) on the north side, overlooking the Passy cemetery:
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Thomas meets Etienne (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) on the île aux Cygnes (episode 6) and then (episode 7) the two of them meet Lucie:
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Though I haven't been able to locate Etienne's home, the area code for his telephone number - Mirabeau - situates it narratively in the vicinity of this meeting place, in that part of the 16th arrondissement just west of the île aux Cygnes. Etienne lives in a house behind a small square:
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l'île Saint Louis + l'île de la Cité
According to a letter stolen from Etienne by Frédérique, Lucie lives on the île Saint Louis, at 13 rue Saint-Louis-en-l'île. At the end of episode 2 Lili drives to the île de la Cité to meet Lucie on the rue de Harlay, behind the Palais de Justice where Lucie works:
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In episode 7 Lucie meets Elaine (Karen Puig) by the river's edge, with behind them views of the Pont Neuf and the Théâtre de la Ville on the place de Châtelet:
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portes de Paris
Members of Lili's troupe try to find Renaud by showing his photograph to people at various gates into Paris. We see them at eight of these (Champerret, Chapelle, Lilas, Dorée, Gare, Choisy, Italie, Orléans), and according to Quentin his daughter Max has been to the porte de Vanves.
unidentified cafés
Two cafés are still unidentified (though perhaps this is the same place, inside and out):
Two cafés are still unidentified (though perhaps this is the same place, inside and out):
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unidentified homes
The homes of Colin, Emilie 9i.e. Pauline), the Balzacian, Quentin, Thomas and Warok are real places but they are seen only from the inside, so identification is unlikely:
The homes of Colin, Emilie 9i.e. Pauline), the Balzacian, Quentin, Thomas and Warok are real places but they are seen only from the inside, so identification is unlikely:
Obade
Out 1's one location outside of Paris is a house at Hermanville-sur-Mer, on the Normandy coast between Cherbourg and Le Havre, just north of Caen.
The house has since been demolished.