My Journey through French Cinema
My Journey through French Cinema
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Writer-director Bertrand Tavernier is truly one of the grand auteurs of the movies. His experience is vast, his knowledge is voluminous, his love is inexhaustible and his perspective is matched only by that of Martin Scorsese. This magnificent, epic documentary has been a lifetime in the making. Tavernier knows his native cinema inside and out, from the giants like Renoir, Godard, and Melville (for whom he worked as an assistant) to now overlooked and forgotten figures like Edmund T. Gréville and Guy Gilles, and his observations and reminiscences are never less than penetrating and always deeply personal.

Bertrand Tavernier---France---2016---192 mins.

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  | JohnH#1

From Tavernier's opening comments, likening the first movie he saw to flares in the sky that signaled the advance of Allied troops liberating his native Lyon, until the summing up a wonderful tutorial on multiple aspects of film production: screen acting, directorial styles and techniques, scripts, cinematography, scores and much more. Humbling. I'd seen many of the films Tavernier analyzed and realize now how much I missed.

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