Roger Leenhardt is an unusual man: he seems constantly sleepy and mumbles in the most spectacular way. He is not satis- ed with being one of our best lm critics and an excellent radio-reporter but has also made fascinating documentaries. The other evening they presented two of them: Départ en Allemagne, a skilled montage of current events and models in the style of Why We Fight, and Lettre de Paris, a screenplay by Claude Roy.

Made for our foreign friends, this small lm will also enchant the French; it de- scribes the Paris of the summer of 1945, the GIs and their mates who discover la rue de la Paix where between the caba- rets of Montmartre, the bathers along the Seine, trips on the metrò and the literary cafes of the rive gauche, they encounter Paul Eluard, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide conversing with Jean-Louis Barrault near the statue of Diderot…
Ariane, Un bonjour de Paris, “L’Ecran français”, n. 23, December 5, 1945