Although Hollywood started the gangster film in the 1930s and 1940s, the French perfected it in the 1950s and 1960s. The acting was more subtle: the events depicted more credible, less theatrical, and less clichéd. But after the golden age of Jean Gabin and Lino Ventura, French cinema moved on, its films evolving as crime and society changed during the era of Mitterrand and Chirac.
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