My Journey Through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
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Did you know
- TriviaPrologue: "Something unites Bertrand and me: We are both of the Liberation and of the Cinemathèque.---Jean-Luc Godard"
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Bertrand Tavernier: "Dernier Atout" is a brilliant but minor film of Becker's. The real shock cam in seeing "Casque d'Or" at the Noctambule on Rue Champollion where I used to play hooky. I was staggered by the serene assurance with which Becker managed to create a tragic climate that he usually distilled with more restraint... Here the tragedy hits you frontally. What's striking is his formal and visual command, the narrative elegance, and the way this mastery never interferes with the emotion, never makes the work impersonal. It's a film in which you constantly feel the character's heartbeat. The mise en scène flexes emotion like you flex your muscles.
- ConnectionsFeatures Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
We now come to the "however" part of my review or: Why I Give It A 7 'Stead of a 6? First off, I learned a lot. Got a new appreciation of film makers like Becker and Sautet as well as a crash course in the superiority of French movie music scoring of the 1930s/40s versus that of Hollywood. Second, I enjoyed Tavernier's ability to admire a director without undue hagiography as in his affectionate but clear eyed portrait of Melville, in my opinion the best part of the documentary. And finally there is no denying that Tavernier is a most engaging guide, by turns relaxed, intense, self deprecating and always generous and warm in his assessments. Give it a B minus.
- mossgrymk
- Mar 23, 2023
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- A Journey Through French Cinema
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $52,214
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,636
- Jun 25, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $73,514
- Runtime3 hours 21 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1