Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on August 30, 2008 at 18:26:11

In Reply to: RE: French film is one of my favorite genre. I own quite a few..... posted by mr grits on August 30, 2008 at 10:30:03

film club which ran many French New Wave films.
I was salivating over Jean Eustache's, "La Mere et la Putain" before you could spell Francophile :-).
French film is far too rich and complex to fit into the cubbyhole you wish.
Bresson, Melville, Truffaut, Rohmer, Varda, Chabrol, and many others revolted against the Hollywood formula, against the ideas of "hero" as had been set for several decades. Character development? Not a factor in many, especially New Wave, directors' palette as characters could shift in the same film, from scene to scene, adrift without logical framework. How to "develop" in such an existential free-for-all?
Anyhow, we're far afield of my reaction to the original poster's idea.