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Originally Posted by punkworld
French cinema as a whole, excluding a few notable exceptions, has become rather dull and monotonous over the past few decades. Generic "art films" with no real artistic or philosophical value whatsoever have mostly replaced genuine experimental film, turning French cinema into a bland and repetitive farce. Like the French economy, it just lacks that creative spark that makes films fun.
Ofcourse, if you don't watch many films, it isn't all that bad, because the concepts and dialogues being repeated over and over again in slightly different forms are fairly good. The lack of originality only becomes really offensive when you are exposed to it too often. It's a sad fact that one who wants to watch some original and authentic French films is still best off with the likes of Godard and Renoir.
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Well, that is much the same with any nation's cinema. I watch a lot of world cinema and each nation/region ahs its own style and when their films become popular they sometimes sit back and go into autopilot. Hollywood being the prime example, of course. Also, each nation has its good and bad. I have seen some truly bland French films and some fantatic French films. I have noticed lately that their are a lot more 'traditional' films than art films reaching the world cinema market from France. This one was sort of a mix of an art film and a traditional film and it worked for me.
btw..I still say that South/Central America is the most exciting region for cinema at the moment.