> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Darren Addy > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > or they could give it to a French director and make a good film > instead. > > You might have something there. I recently watched "The Diving Bell and > the Butterfly" and, while it was hard to watch, it is a movie that I > haven't stopped thinking about since and one that I immediately knew > could never be made in Hollywood. (The main character would have not > been shown as realistically, for one thing.) A powerful film about > inhumanities, large and small. >
the most successful French cinema (critically, if not box-officely) exists in opposition to the Hollywood system, which is so tied to standard arc of the hero, and is generally pretty boring. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
