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5 unusual facts about French Impressionist Cinema


French Impressionist Cinema

1 Others, namely Richard Abel, criticize these attempts and group the films and filmmakers more loosely, based on a common goal of “exploration of the process of representation and signification in narrative film discourse.” 2 Still others such as Dudley Andrew would struggle with awarding any credibility at all as “movement.” 3

David Bordwell has attempted to define a unified stylistic paradigm and set of tenets.

Germaine Dulac

A short time later Dulac and Delluc collaborated on La fête espagnole ("Spanish Fiesta", 1920), another film featuring Francis, which was proclaimed one of the decade's most influential films and, allegedly, a major French Impressionist Cinema work.

With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory.

Louis Delluc

Louis Delluc (14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924) was an Impressionist French film director, screen writer and film critic.



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