French Poetic Realism is a good thing to be seeing if one loves film noir
There's just such a breathtaking gloomy sensation these have, i'm currently watching Marcel Carne's Les portes de la nuit (The Gates of the Night) from 1946. It was at the time not escapist enough, and to be blunt, when a film hits too close to home in a society, it's not going to be too lucrative for the makers of it.
French cinema as a whole is to be explored after an initial falling under the spell of the Nouvelle Vague, I want to see what came before it, there is surely some of the best films in world sense from this famed country, so famous for stereotypical ways, but when you develop a working knowledge of the terrain, most of the high points, to then follow more deeply into the all important back catalog of cinema history.
I'm not the kind that memorizes actor's names let alone the names of the characters in the films, but it wouldn't hurt to be a little more familiar with names, to add onto my all too basic necessity of title and year.
In my 80s i'll be a movie encyclopedia that can cure insomnia and induce comas.
French cinema as a whole is to be explored after an initial falling under the spell of the Nouvelle Vague, I want to see what came before it, there is surely some of the best films in world sense from this famed country, so famous for stereotypical ways, but when you develop a working knowledge of the terrain, most of the high points, to then follow more deeply into the all important back catalog of cinema history.
I'm not the kind that memorizes actor's names let alone the names of the characters in the films, but it wouldn't hurt to be a little more familiar with names, to add onto my all too basic necessity of title and year.
In my 80s i'll be a movie encyclopedia that can cure insomnia and induce comas.
46-50, M
