A Beginner's Guide to French Cinema
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This video is intended as a beginner’s guide to the world of French cinema. I discuss movements such as the French New Wave, New French Extremity, and Poetic Realism, as well as directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Abel Gance, and Jean Renoir.
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I have taken notes. Many Thanks for adding films to watch which I was unaware of!
And here I felt proud after watching ratatouille regarding it as french cinema
Wait, wait, waaaait! You mean it's not??? 🙆🏾♂️😂
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I have always said French Cinema was/is very important even before knowing exactly why!
This is sad 🙄
lol
Make a beginners guide to Korean cinema next, please!
That is definitely on the list!
This Channel is criminally underrated. You are really unfolding The Bible of cinema for aspiring filmmakers with each new video. Lots of Love.
Thank you so much!!!!
The Bible of "Art House" cinema!
French cinema STILL coming on top with this my fav movie this year, Titane (Titanium), by Julia Ducournau (who directed Raw, as mentioned in the video)
Agreed, I loved Titane.
The films of Henri-Georges Clouzot got me into French cinema and I'd argue that 'The Wages Of Fear' is one of the best starting points for people wanting to get into foreign language films as a whole.
I think that french cinema peaked abroad with the new wave and the 1970ies. But nowadays a film like Raw or the masterpiece The Lady In Fire still can reach a larger audiences via Hollywood. In conclusion i'd like to see more of non american movies to be subtitled, not only french films but also asian ones.
Thanks for not choosing to drown out your essay with unnecessary and constant music.
0:00 Intro
0:51 Right Bank Group
3:29 Left Bank Group
5:30 Pioneer Era
6:47 French Impressionism
7:53 Poetic Realism
9:50 New French Extremity
11:15 Others
13:12 Outro
Nicely done, and again no argument with the choices but in such a short format so much is missed out. It is understandable that in 2024 there is more focus on the New Wave and later, but for me that stuff lends itself more to being respected than loved, and while no doubt more influential and innovative than French cinema from the 30s to the 70s, much of it is hard work to sit through more than once. I have a special place in my cinematic heart for unfashionable directors like Duvivier who was mentioned in passing, but also for Pagnol,, Clement and Carne, Becker and Guitry and lesser lights such as Feyder and Franju. And for almost forgotten actors like Raimu, Harry Baur, Michel Simon and Simone Signoret. I have probably taken more enjoyment from French cinema than any other. Of films not mentioned, my faves are The Baker's Wife, The Earrings of Madame de..., He Who Must Die, Forbidden Games, Carnival in Flanders, La Chienne and La Poison.
I wish you could have put the original title, some are easy to translate but some look nothing like the litteral translation.
I'm glad I've cross path with this video, there's a lot of film I need to watch !
Let me know if there are any other countries you'd like to see a video like this for. I'm thinking Germany might be next.
Germany would be actually great. Also, about Russia(USSR), even though I've seen a lot, it still would be very interesting.
Italian
Russian please!
Hungary!
india!
Please make mention of Jean Cocteau and Olivier Assayas... ❤
Great directors!!!!i forgot about some of them aint talking about Truffaut and the more known ones!!!!French is the language of cinema...... Bertolucci and Passolini said it....
A correction: Agnès Varda's first film was La Pointe Courte released in 1955.
Besides that, great video! Thank you for sharing all this enriching information, since there are not many channels that focus on cinema history.
Ah yes, it appears you are right, thanks for the correction!
Very interesting and well made ! I love French Cinema , Thank you !
Worth mentioning animated movies too? Like The Triplets of Belleville or Michel Ocelot's series of Kirikou.
One question, where can I watch these movie? Trying to find DVD would be a pain, never sign up to the Criterion Collection streaming service before, would that be a good place?
Yes, I highly recommend the Criterion streaming service.
It is a very good video but you miss Marcel Pagnol
I'd also mention Radu Mihaileanu as a more recent filmmaker with accessible and entertaining, yet still very personal films. I'd especially recommend Train of Life (1998) and Le Concert (2009).
I mean they did invent cinema
Great video. Excellent breakdown. I always though Bresson along with Melville were part of the French Minimalist movement. Only other movements I can think of are The Surrealist films of Cocteau, Bunuel and the earlier ones from the 30s, The crime and caper films and also the cinema verite movement in the 60s.
Since you seem to like French "mute" cinéma, you could include Tati's cinéma.
In that sense I don't recommend you Guitry's or Lautner's films (even though they are excellent).
Some french films were a little to artsy for me but they also came out with some of the best crime films I have ever seen.
When i first got cable tv 30 years ago, channel 4 was the intetnational channel and saturday afternoon was french cinema, followed by hongkong movies, then global news from stations around the world. I was in heaven!
great video, but another amazing and highly influential French filmmaker you didn’t mention is louis feuillade
JEAN PIERRE MELVILLE! BERTRAND BLIER!
Every immigrant in germany(of my generarion at least) has seen La Haine and the works of Gaspar Noe as a youth. I acknowledge the genius of Irrevesible, but I refuse to ever see it again!
Cocteau?
French cinema before the Nouvelle Vague was honestly so much better it hurts. Gabin, Ventura, and the rest of the guys; Cocteau; Clouzot… the Nouvelle Vague spread a bunch of bullshit and its influence is such that now all the made in France drama is absolute trash. There has been a few very good movies since 2000; most of them genre films. Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence and Evolution, Julia Durcournau’s Grave and Titane, Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs and a few others. Sometimes good stuff comes out, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was indeed very good. But seriously, as a young frenchman working in the industry right now I do not have strong enough words to condemn the Nouvelle Vague and its legacy. Thank God at the time Polanski was working in Paris and made a few great films, the eighties had french produced Zulawski films… but still. The Nouvelle Vague directors, especially Godard basically not knowing what the fuck he was doing is not a good thing. Breaking barriers is great, but at some point you gotta go with a bit more than that. I find Godard’s films insufferable, and I’m not the only one. In film school it was the worst part of the curriculum, and now les cahiers du cinema have been absorbed by a huge conglomerate and have nothing to do with what they used to represent anyway. Can we please get past the nouvelle vague collectively, so that my country film industry can stop rehashing the same 75% bad comedy 20% bad drama ratio please.
Ps: I don’t like the nouvelle vague.
Interesting comment, are you really from France? The thing is that the mind revolutions at its time were very important, unexpected maybe, but key in our social formation. If Novelle Vague went to degeneration not demerit its original value, in my opinion.
Je te comprends sur beaucoup de choses. Notre cinéma manque vraiment de diversité, contrairement au cinéma Américain... Également Bollywood, Asiatique... Il y des genres négligés, qui mérite leurs attention... On peut parler de sciences-fictions, d'animations, d'horreur... Comment pourrions-nous convaincre ces intellectuels de sortir de leur bulle ?
I understand that, it's similar with German cinema. German cinema before the 1970s was highly commercially successful, though it also churned out quite a lot of trash at the time, including superficial musical comedies and the like. But in the 1970s, the new filmmakers like Fassbinder* came in, and they single-handedly killed commercial German cinema. It was dead until the mid-1990s, with only very few comedies being successful. It has regained some impact since then, producing a variety of genres, but still, German cinema today is either mindless comedies or pretentious stuff made for festivals.
*Fassbinder is relatively accessible though.
French cinema is my third favourite outside of my native countries' industries (UK, U.S.). I love LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE, SAMBA, BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH'TIS, RIEN À DECLARER, PERSEPOLIS, L'ILLUSIONNISTE, SEUL CONTRE TOUS, THE ARTIST, LA HAINE, INTOUCHABLES, etc.
I love your channel so much, great stuff!
Thank you!!
Luis Buñuel?
He was Spanish, not French, but a great director for sure.
One of the most iconic scenes in french cinema is pass me the butter lol
Les Tontons Flingueurs de Georges Lautner et Michel Audiard.
Great video, boy, congratulations. I watched almost all of these films, and rememebr how L'Atalante awake in me a very old sadness in my first youth that I still have...
Céline Sciamma!!
theFrench have won 12 foreign language awards at Cannes? How does that work?
No, they won 12 Foreign Language Oscars and 12 top prizes at Cannes.
Don't forget MARGUERITE DURAS cinema
Highly recommend ex yugoslavian cinema.
Great video
I would love a video like this about Eastern European cinema.
Eisenhower has to be on it
Oh i watched lovely film called "My name is Zuchinni".
Beautiful material.
love this channel
Love your work, keep it up👍🏻
Thank you!
I’m trying to locate the name of a film I think was made made probably in the 80’s or 90’s , (possibly 70’s though) - a young young female cook (I remember she made some tarts), worked for a family. She ended up shooting some of the family. One of their first names of her victims was Gilles (name of a character). Another family member, probably the mother of Gilles, hears a recording of the shooting. Does anyone know the title ? Thanks.
La Ceremonie by Claude Chabrol
What about film noir?
Film noir is not a French genre, but an American one, though the concept was coined by French film critics.
@@fruzsimih7214 Thanks. Blessings.
Incredible content. Keep up the great work.
Thank you, means so much to me to see comments like this!
Great work, as always
Thank you!
Great work again! I was wondering if you could consider making a piece on John Cassavetes?
Thanks! That's a good idea, his work is quite interesting.
@@kubricklynch Thank you!
You could make a video on Mario Monicelli
You should do a beginner's guide to Aussie cinema!
That is definitely on the list! I'm doing Soviet next though.
@@kubricklynch Damn I was actually about to suggest that too, but you've read my mind. Looking forward to it!
I'd also recommend the films of Luc Besson
Thanks a lot!!!
France second to USA? Man I know three countries at least that have the podium on movie history and relevance and USA is not any of them. USA Cinema may had its time but you cannot compare.
Nah, if you have even basic knowledge of film history, the US is undoubtedly the most influential. It's honestly not even up for debate.
@@kubricklynch I place French cinéma at a higher place. US American movies comes second with Italian cinéma of the 40s to 80s. Maybe it's all about language, freedom and emotions.
Could each country keep its own movies mainly to itself ?
@@jandron94 I mean you personally may prefer French cinema, but there's no denying the massive influence of Hollywood.
@@kubricklynch I am really not sure about that, I would have to delve in the early 20th cinema history. I know that the German cinema of the 20s had an influence in some aspects. Hollywood itself drew so many talents from the European cinema sphere...
Hollywood is an industrie and a business above all. If you watch a Jean Vigo film of the early 30s where is the Hollywood influence in that film? It's not like everybody in Europe would watch and be inspired by Hollywood movies. The crushing Hollywood machine fore sure has done a lot of damage to the world cultural diversity. Some call it economical "dumping" or economical and cultural imperialism. For sure most US Americans are happy with that.
@@jandron94 I mean yeah not "everyone" but the filmmakers of Europe definitely were watching Hollywood films of the early 20th century, including Vigo.
French is a language above all, not a collection of silent pictures. A film is 75% sound (dialogs, music and the rest) and 25% image : I take pleasure in listening films with my eyes closed but I don't enjoy watching them without the soundtrack. Le français est une langue qui peut s'apprendre, même les plus grands crétins y arrivent…