FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST CINEMA (1918-1929)

FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST CINEMA (1918-1929)


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1. These are two pictures that describe the French Cinema. The first is a painting made by Benoit Philippe, a Parisian artist that works with oils, pastels and watercolors. Great picture which represents the time and the Franchise cinema.
The second picture was made by Camille Pissarro a great painter of the French Cinema

2. The rise of Fascism influenced on the rise of the French Cinema. It gives new ideas to do different movies or different ideas that people interested and like in new films.
The Great Depression also was a great theme that influenced and give different ideas to directors, also the lighting of the movies were better, and people interested more in movies. The French Cinema was a big revolution and a lot of people start to see it.
Finally the third factor was that modern devices appear in cinema, and directors, start to use it, was a big and important advance in World Cinema, that was really useful for the French Cinema, that learnt to use it properly.


3. The French Cinema have different techniques, for example:
- Quick editing and a great camera work to demonstrate the message of the film.
- Angles were really vary and some tipes of shots give to the audience some characteristics that you can see about the characters (ex: angry, sad, etc.)
- Camera movement (independent of subject, for graphic effects, point-of-view)
4. Name: Abel Gance

• Major Films: 1923: La Roue , 1927: Napoléon , 1918: Mater Dolorosa
• Abel Gance, was fueled by literary ambitions from childhood, also after he maybe was killed he do a film demonstrating the War and he liked that. Also an important thing that he likes, doing films that have love, or an parallel history of romance.

Name: Germaine Dulac

• Major films: La cigarette (1919) , La belle dame sans merci (1921) , Âme d'artiste (1925)
• In films he like also the love history, the romance and maybe complicated the movie, but some movies are not in that interest. The main interest of Germaine Dulac was the love history.