Five of the directors (Chabrol, Douchet, Godard, Rohmer and Pollet) come from the Nouvelle Vague, which has always taken great pains to portray Paris in a detailed and affectionate way.The sixth director is Rouch, an ethnological documentary producer who is close to the above movement. He realized "˜Gare du Nord', a revisitation with direct filming of sequences and direct sound recording, enabling a survey of reality.