I've seen this interview before. He seems surprisingly down-to-earth and unpretentious for a French New Wave director!
Out of this bunch, Rohmer has to be my favourite. His films are very simple, almost uncerebral, but then they are populated by characters I personally identify with. They are romantic comedies that I want to watch.
Truffaut is pretty good. Jules et jim is lovely.
Godard, on the whole, is too pretentious and obscure. I like a couple of his films, but on the whole... they are jam-packed with pretentious aphorisms and daft laughable ideas.
Chabroal - I saw one of his films - The Butcher I think it's called - and it was good. Hitchcockian, not in its framing, but in its tone and pacing.
Rivette... I saw the classic '... Go Boating' and, whilst the conceit intrigued me, I got bored by its daft silliness. I saw The Story of Marie and Julie, which was pretty much panned by all the critics, but I liked it. It was about three hours long, it was lugubrious and pretty much nothing happened, but it intrigued me.
I've seen this interview before. He seems surprisingly down-to-earth and unpretentious for a French New Wave director!
ReplyDeleteOut of this bunch, Rohmer has to be my favourite. His films are very simple, almost uncerebral, but then they are populated by characters I personally identify with. They are romantic comedies that I want to watch.
Truffaut is pretty good. Jules et jim is lovely.
Godard, on the whole, is too pretentious and obscure. I like a couple of his films, but on the whole... they are jam-packed with pretentious aphorisms and daft laughable ideas.
Chabroal - I saw one of his films - The Butcher I think it's called - and it was good. Hitchcockian, not in its framing, but in its tone and pacing.
Rivette... I saw the classic '... Go Boating' and, whilst the conceit intrigued me, I got bored by its daft silliness. I saw The Story of Marie and Julie, which was pretty much panned by all the critics, but I liked it. It was about three hours long, it was lugubrious and pretty much nothing happened, but it intrigued me.
Correction: I'd only seen a fragment of this long video!
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