The most freewheeling of New Wave films, Louis Malle's Zazie represents an ingenious solution to the problem of filming Raymond Queneau's "unfilmable" novel about a foul-mouthed 11-year-old girl who comes to Paris to visit her drag-queen uncle. Finding the cinematic equivalent of the author's punning style, Malle fashions his film into an orgy of outrageous sight-gags, in-jokes, film parodies, visual games, changing speeds, and wild stunts. The use of breakneck editing in particular marked a new era in film technique, but in all departments Zazie is a funny, magical and unique movie, a cinematic journey through the looking glass.