André Sauvage's beautiful photographic study of Paris is an insider's tour for sure: only un vrai Parisian would devote so much time to the canals and locks, the barges and workers of what the locals know (or knew) to be a maritime city. Sauvage's camera also knows well the odd sign painted on a building, the corner cafe, the evocative empty street, the neighborhoods explored one by one because each is unique. Paris is perhaps rivaled only by New York as a city whose every avenue and park is familiar in a very literal sense, family, and in the way that both reveres and takes the loved one for granted. For the little dog we see running down an embankment and jumping into the Canal St-Martin, for the cop who walks slowly through the Jardin du Luxembourg, for everyone else caught unawares on camera, Sauvage films this city because it is Paris, and it is home. (JB)