Do the French make their movies like they make their art?
By jazzsue58
@jazzsue58 (2666)
January 11, 2010 8:47pm CST
I watched La vie en rose the other night, a biopic about Edith Piaf, with subtitles. Acting was superb, but it was very puzzling the way it was shot - the flashback sequences were all over the place! Like, she got married and lost a little girl to meningitis before she ever started her career, yet this was covered as a flashback way after events that happened in her 40s.
I looked the movie up, and it was dubbed an "impressionist film." Is this familiar in French movie making? I felt it flawed a good film but is it a known way for French cinema to do things like flashbacks? And have you seen this movie - if so, what did YOU think?
Oo, I don't think we've had an arthouse discussion yet. 
1 response
@jshan87 (31)
• United States
12 Jan 10
Yea they do because a movie is art. Look at the thousands of american movies out there. Many of them are artsy and then some not. The French work the same way, they are gonna have there movies for the masses and then the artsy movies for those who want to dig a little deeper. Of course I dont live in france so maybe their masses our more artsy, and in turn most of there movies are as well.
