一个流浪巴黎的街头歌手、他的好友以及一个两人都心仪的姑娘，三人的恋爱关系支撑了整部电影，故事性十分贫乏。导演莱恩·克莱尔的旷世激情与浪漫洋溢在巴黎的狭小出租屋中。本片描写了一个街头歌手竞争一个美丽姑娘的故事。通过歌曲对爱情和人性弱点的诙谐探索，世故的眼光和破天荒的新影音技术的使用捕获了巴黎浮华的气氛。《巴黎的屋檐下》的发行是电影制作史上令人振奋的庆典，引起了世界的轰动，是法国最受欢迎的电影之一。

"Le Voyage Imaginaire" belongs to the most avant-garde first period of the frenchified film director René Clair. This is from his silent and experimental film period of which this German Count is very fond despite Herr Clair being a descendant of those revolutionaries who treated so badly the aristocracy of that country some years ago.
"Le Voyage Imaginaire" is full of suggestions in which different genres are mixed (avant-garde, comedy, surrealism) without any real connection. It's a really bizarre film that relates the complicated relationship between three bank clerks (and their boss) for the typist girl that works in the same office. Herr Clair creates a dream world which plunges the audience into a universe full of fantasy. There are lady fortunetellers, fairies, classic story characters and even modern heroes such as "Charlot" (for the frenchified people) not to mention the "Notre Dame" roofs and the museum "Grévin". To this German Count it seems to be a kind of deluded fairy tale, extravagant, anxiously exaggerated and very rich in film ideas.
That mixed dream world benefits from using all the special effects known at that time (slow motion, double exposure, optical effects) combined with simple backgrounds that are perfect for the formal aspect of the story. It all creates an unreal atmosphere, incredible and dumbfounding at times. Herr Clair directed a very special film that is thought-provoking and fascinating.

1895年一个夏日的清晨。法迪纳尔当天要与未婚妻举行结婚典礼。为此，他驾着马车匆匆忙忙赶路。马车驶进巴黎近郊的布劳涅森林。不巧，法迪纳尔手中的马鞭被路旁的树枝勾住，他只好停下车来自己动手去解开。大青马啃烂了一顶挂在树枝的上意大利草帽。原来，这顶草帽的女主人阿娜斯，正和她的情夫，一位法国北非军团的达维尔尼埃中尉在森林中幽会。阿娜斯害怕回家后被好吃醋的丈夫发现，对她追根问底，就要法迪纳尔赔一顶一模一样草帽。法迪纳尔不予理会，觉得阿娜斯这是无理取闹。达维尔尼埃中尉就追到法迪纳尔家中，扬言倘若法迪纳尔不及时赔出一顶新草帽，他就要捣毁洞房。法迪纳尔出于无奈，只好去店里购买。可是他走遍了巴黎，竟寻找不到一顶相似的帽子，自己的婚礼也因此被耽搁。法迪纳尔回到家中，发现在宾客的赠礼中，竟然就有一顶一模一样的意大利款式的草帽，于是，他赶紧把草帽送到阿娜斯的手中。最后，新娘也谅解了新郎，在华灯初上的时刻，欢乐的结婚典礼终于开始了……

Afin de voir la femme qu'il aime, un millionnaire achète un magasin de chaussures. C'est alors qu'il tombe amoureux d'une des vendeuses.