Movies and Film: The Eighties and Nineties
The Eighties and Nineties
We could easily write another Complete Idiot's Guide focusing solely on the last 20 years of French film. You probably already know some of what we'd have to cover:
Luc Besson's La femme Nikita (1990), the acting talents (and majestic schnoz) of Grard Depardieu. The tip of the new French film iceberg includes directors like Yannick Bellon, Leos Carax, tienne Chatiliez, Nelly Kaplan, Jeanne Moreau, Coline Serreau, and many others.
The best we can do is ask you—beg you, more like it—to find out where you can either watch or get a hold of this fantastic stuff on video and DVD and devour as much as you can!
All in all, France's new crop of young directors has more than lived up to the legacy of their artistic forebears in the medium.
Filmophile's Lexicon
Cinma du look is a catchword for the postmodern films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson, and other '80s directors who focused on the visual image per se as the overall "message" of film.
Filmophile's Lexicon
Cinma beur refers to a new wave of naturalistic films directed by and featuring the lives of young North Africans in France; Rachid Bouchareb's Cheb (1990) and Mehdi Charef's Le Th au harem d'Archimde (1986) are among the most influential examples of this recent genre.
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