Preceded by-Paris, la nuit (Jacques Baratier, Jean Valère, 1955): Paris, Night. "With surprising grace Paris, la nuit transposes, for the eye not fatigued by habit, a force, a vivaciousness, a fugue comparable to that of Choses vues by Victor Hugo. Never is a detail forgotten, never does a theatrical effect spoil the surprise, never anything picturesque, nor banal"--Jean Cocteau. (23 mins, No dialogue, B&W, 35mm) (Le désordre a vingt ans). "Idealistic and devoted to experiment" is how film historian Georges Sadoul characterizes Jacques Baratier. So the subject of Saint-Germain des Prés, the Parisian sector that became the hub of European postwar intellectual life, birthplace of Sartre's Existentialism, home of idealists and experimenters, would be a natural one for him. Baratier's first short film, made in 1949, was entitled Désordre; nearly twenty years later, he looks again at the era, the place, and the changes. Sartre, De Beauvoir, Artaud, Camus, and many other prominent figures who made Saint-Germain des Prés famous appear in the film. The witty observations of Boris Vian, writer, songwriter, and jazzman, help locate the new freedom-what Baratier calls disorder-in an ever-changing moment. (Thus the film's full title: Le désordre a vingt ans, Voilà l'ordre.)