France is one of the first countries to invent film. The two brothers Lumiere, a manufacturer of photographic equipment in Lyon, produced a mobile cinema machine that can be used for projection, filming and film processing in 1894. With this hand-cranked movie camera, Lumiere made some short films documenting scenes of daily life. On December 28, 1895, short films such as "Factory Gate", "Baby Lunch", "Train Arrival" and "Watering the Gardener" were screened for the first time in a large café in Paris. This day is recognized as the day the film was born.
▲The pictures above show the posters of the movies "Factory Gate", "Baby Lunch", "Train Arrival", and "Watering the Gardener"
French films have developed so far, among which Godard, Truffaut, Varda, etc. are the most popular ones. "New Wave" genre represented by people. What these "new wave" directors have in common is that they all oppose traditional film practices, emphasize that film is a personal artistic creation, and demand that films be liberated from the shackles of traditional art.
▲The above picture shows Varda's representative work "Gleaner", Truffau's representative work "Ancestor and Occupation" and "Four Hundred Strikes", Godard's representative work "Contempt" and "Madman Pierrot"
mentioned French movies , There is another name that can't get around-Bresson, he has nothing to do with the New Wave or the Left Bank, even far away from the film industry.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of French film master Robert Bresson. The 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival "Salute to the Master", which ended not long ago, showcased "Death Prison Escape", "Pickpocket", "Diary of a Country Priest" and "Warrior" "Snow" and 10 other films directed by him in different periods. From his feature film debut in 1943, "Guilty Angels" to his posthumous work "Money" in 1983, Bresson has made 13 films during his 40-year directorship.
▲ The above pictures show the posters of Bresson’s movie "Death Row Escape", "Money", and "Pickpocket". The
works are low-yield, and Bresson's behavior is also very low-key. He did not communicate with colleagues or reporters, and kept in touch with the outside world on a telephone line for many years. But because of his unique film style, he has gained wide respect from his peers. Godard said: "Bresson is to French film what Mozart is to Austrian music, and Dostoevsky is to Russian literature." The latest news of
, directed by documentary director Gilles de Meister The French film "The White Lion" will be released in China soon. The film tells the story of a girl Mia and a rare breed of white lion Charlie who accompany each other and grow together.
It is reported that in order to present the story to the maximum extent, the film crew used real lions throughout the filming. During the three-year filming process, the heroine and the white lion remained inseparable and developed a deep relationship. After the movie is finished, in real life, the girl and the white lion have also become good friends, which can be described as a good story. After the feature film was released in France in December last year, the number of local viewers exceeded 1.4 million and the number of global viewers exceeded 4 million.
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