France.

The birthplace of cinema

• The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean were the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph.

“The cinema is an invention without any future”-Louis Lumière

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk

•A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès.

After World War I

After World War I, the French film industry suffered because of a lack of capital, and film production decreased as it did in most other European

countries. This allowed the United States film industry to enter the European cinema market, because American films could be sold more

cheaply than European productions, since the studios already had recouped their costs in the home market. When film studios in Europe began to fail, many European countries began to set import barriers.

France installed an import quota of 1:7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and

shown in French cinemas

French Impressionism French impressionist cinema, also referred to as the first

avant-garde or narrative avant-garde, is a term applied to a group of French films and filmmakers of the 1920s

Abel Gance (La Dixième symphonie (1918), J’Accuse (1919), La Roue (1922), and above all, Napoléon (1927))

Jean Epstein (Coeur fidèle (1923), Six et demi onze (1927), La Glace a Trois Face (1928), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928))

Germaine Dulac (The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922)) Marcel L'Herbier (El Dorado (1921)) Louis Delluc – critic/theorist Jean Renoir (Nana (1926))

Poetic realism was a film movement in France of the 1930s.

They are "recreated realism", stylised and studio bound, rather than approaching the "socio-realism of the documentary"

Poetic realism

Faces of Children (French: Visages d'enfants) is a 1925 French-Swiss silent film directed by Jacques Feyder

In 1937, Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, directed what many see as his first masterpiece, La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion).

The film is a comedy of manners that depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants just before the beginning of world war 2, showing their moral callousness on the eve of impending destruction.The Rules of the

Post–World War II

“The film of tomorrow seems to me even more personal than a novel, individual and autobiographical, like a confession or a private diary.”

- Francois Truffaut, 1957.

The French New Wave was a group of trailblazing directors who exploded onto the film scene in the late 1950s; revolutionising cinematic conventions by marrying the rapid cuts of Hollywood with philosophical trends.

The philosophical importance of the French New Wave, and their role in the development of a theory of film, was in large part due to one of the movement’s most influential and pivotal creators, André Bazin. Bazin, a theorist of cinema and renowned film critic, was the founding father of the French movie magazine Cahiers du Cinéma.

Initially edited by Doniol-Valcroze and, after 1957, by Éric Rohmer (Maurice Scherer), it included amongst its writers Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut

Mon Oncle (1958)

Filmmaker – Jacques Tati

The first of Tati's films to be released in colour.

M. Hulot is the dreamy, impractical, and adored uncle of nine-year-old Gérard Arpel, who lives with his materialistic parents, M. and Mme.

Villa Arpel

Director - Francois TruffautWritten by - Truffaut and Marcel Moussylocation in - Paris & france

Film about – Antoine Doinel , a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a troublemaker.

The 400 Blows (1959)

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Ending Part

Breathless (French: À bout de souffle; "out of breath") is a 1960 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard about a wandering criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg)

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib1OMh5fTkQ

Paris Belongs to Us (French: Paris nous appartient, sometimes translated as Paris Is Ours) is a 1961 French mystery film directed by Jacques Rivette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlJy5p-PGfg

Hiroshima mon amour is a 1959 drama film directed by French film director Alain Resnais

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZwrCOXLrIA

Le Beau Sergeis a French film directed by Claude Chabrol, released in 1958.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dhfkePzuGA

The Angelis a French silent dramatic experimental independent surrealist underground art film directed by Patrick, shown in 1982 at the Cannes Film Festival, can be considered the beginnings of contemporary animation..

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXbFNhyb2VU

Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-uxeZaM-VM

The Class is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq5qNzm3w-U

Of Gods and Men (film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrIyn3yuip4

Blue Is the is a 2013 French coming-of-age romantic drama film written, produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOiug_u7Wns

Dheepan is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters.[5] The film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzLscT8_Dw

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