But if you continue to immerse yourself, you’ll also discover pleasures unlike those found anywhere else in world cinema. If you dive into the French film canon, you’ll encounter plenty of philosophical musings, arty embellishments and impenetrable characters. But in popular consciousness, ‘French film’ is effectively a slur – coded language for ‘pretentiousness’. Few countries can claim to have exerted such a strong influence over global cinema the New Hollywood revolution of the 1970s wouldn’t have happened without the nouvelle vague. After all, it’s where movie culture, if not moviemaking itself, began: the first commercial film screening in history occurred at the Grand Café in Paris in 1895.
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