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After World War II, as countries that were once occupied by the Nazis opened up to American influence, French movie theaters were flooded with Hollywood movies they hadnât been able to see during the war. This attempt at a kind of cultural imperialism had an unintended consequence: French filmmakers were singularly taken with the B-movie marginalia of American cinema, absorbing forgotten Westerns and hard-boiled detective pictures that would eventually inspire the French New Waveâs riffs on codified and recognizable movie genres.Â
The rest is, of course, history: A generation of passionate young cinephiles like Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette became influential filmmakers, completely changing the landscape of European cinema. Just as American films had altered the perspective of French filmgoers, the works of these directors and their counterparts from Italy, Germany and other European nations would find their way to the United States,
Melvin Van Peebles’s Declaration of Independence Armond White
The final shot of Melvin Van Peebles’s 1968 debut film,
Story of a Three-Day Pass, celebrates FREEDOM. Turner (Harry Baird), a black GI stationed in France, had spent a weekend holiday with a white Frenchwoman, Miriam (Nicole Berger), enjoying all the imaginable pleasures a red-blooded American male could want. Now, after some minor social and personal roadblocks, the girl is gone as Smokey Robinson sang. Left in a familiar, conflicted, patriotic place, he flops onto his barracks cot with a sense of relief. The pressure is off, momentarily.
That freeze-frame image, reminiscent of Francois Truffaut’s French New Wave breakthrough
Blu-ray: Raw
Garance Marillier, developing a taste for the red stuff
Raw opens with a bang, a distant figure on a remote country road stepping out in front of a car, causing it to crash into a tree. What’s really happened isn’t made clear until we’re well into French director Julia Ducournau’s 2016 feature.
Raw opens with a bang, a distant figure on a remote country road stepping out in front of a car, causing it to crash into a tree. What’s really happened isn’t made clear until we’re well into French director Julia Ducournau’s 2016 feature. Part coming-of-age drama, part grisly horror
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