> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Subash > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Cache is one of the best films of recent years - quite stunning and > > typical of French movies in many ways. It is very difficult to > > understand what the hell's going on until you start to link it to > > French culture and history, and see the parallels with the present > > day. There is a superb essay about the film in Unravelling French > Cinema by T Jefferson Kline. > > i did read another essay, can't remember where on the net now, that put > the film in the perspective of france's imperialism in algeria. > the movie did make much better sense when i saw it again after reading > that essay.... >
T Jefferson Kline's essay takes it right back to Charlemagne, via Camus and St Bartholomew! Oh, and the other thing about French cinema is that it is almost always meta-cinema, so not only does Cache pick the scabs off a number of old French wounds, it is also about cinema itself. The 3 key concerns that French cinema has are: 1. Qu'est-ce que la France? What is France? 2. Qu'est-ce que le cinema? What is cinema? 3. Qu'est-ce que le cinema francais? What is French cinema? 4. Qu'est-ce qu'il est beau mon nombril! What a fine navel I have! The 4 key concerns... 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.
