Frederick Wiseman Paris Collection

Frederick Wiseman's Paris Collection groups three documentaries: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué (1996), La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009), and Crazy Horse (2011). Shot in Wiseman’s direct-cinema style—no interviews, no narration—they follow rehearsal, administration, casting, lighting, and the nightly demand to go onstage at the Comédie-Française, the Paris Opera Ballet, and the Crazy Horse nude revue. Taken together, the films are a study of how three historic Paris performance houses work, and of how bodies, craft, and looking are organized.

Movies in release order

1. La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué 1996 · ★ 5.7
2. La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet 2009 · ★ 7.6
3. Crazy Horse 2011 · ★ 6.5