On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote:
> Cache is one of the best films of recent years - quite stunning and typical > of French movies in many ways. It is very difficult to understand what the > hell's going on until you start to link it to French culture and history, > and see the parallels with the present day. There is a superb essay about > the film in Unravelling French Cinema by T Jefferson Kline. i did read another essay, can't remember where on the net now, that put the film in the perspective of france's imperialism in algeria. the movie did make much better sense when i saw it again after reading that essay.... > The paradox is that American and French cinema feed off each other. The > French love American cinema, and they make use of it, but they transform it > - A Bout de Souffle by Godard is an easy and obvious example of a French > director saturated with American cinema turning his hero worship into > something utterly and unmistakably French. Similarly, Hollywood has > plundered French cinema relentlessly, but transformed it for mass audiences > - it can be very interesting to compare French movies with their US remakes. coincidentally, i have "A bout de souffle" and "breathless", to be seen more or less together during an extended weekend... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
