My Journey Through French Cinema Reviews

From the 3 DVDs my sister recently gave me as a gift, this was the one I was the most excited about since I am a big fan of Bertrand Tavernier’s work and of French cinema in general. Pretty much like Martin Scorsese did with the Italian cinema with ‘Il mio viaggio in Italia’ (even the titles of the two movies are really similar), Tavernier tells us here his memories about French movie which was fascinating but also, to be honest, sometimes rather frustrating. I mean, for some reasons, I was expecting that he would give us a full comprehensive analysis but, instead, pretty much like Scorsese did with his own movie, he focused only on the years going from the end of the 30’s to the beginning of the 70’s when I’m actually much more familiar with the movies that came afterwards in the 80’s and the 90’s. On top of that, I was really curious to hear what he had to say about some even more modern French movies but, even after more than 3 hours of running time, we never managed to get there. Still, it was just really neat to hear this master talking about all these other masters who had such an influence on his work but also in the Art of cinema in general. It was also a great reminder that I shouldn’t waste so much time watching some garbage and focus more on such amazing classics. Anyway, the damned thing is definitely worth a look, especially if you consider yourself a movie-buff.