French Cinema Mon Amour
Documentary by Anne-Solen Douguet
56 min - Unifrance Films - 2015
Synopsis
How is French cinema perceived elsewhere in the world? Does French cinema have an impact abroad the way we like to believe it does? Is it still a point of reference? What does it mean for world cinema? What emotions has it provoked in filmmakers around the world? Has it influenced them, and how so? Does it still inspire them?
For the 65th anniversary of the founding of UniFrance, we asked foreign actors, actresses and directors to say why they love our cinema. French Cinema mon amour is a film in chorus, where each person comes with his or her voice, specific attributes, culture, and language, to draw a portrait of French cinema.
“French Cinema is cinema. It changed my life, the same way my first love changed my life.” Alex de la Iglesia
With Martin Scorsese, Volker Schlondörff, Irfan Khan, Ronit Elkabetz, Alex de la Iglesia, Ken Loach, Hany Abu-Assad, Anthony Chen, Wim Wenders, Golshifteh Farahani, Warwick Thornton, Diane Kruger, Stephen Frears, John Turturro, Wes Anderson, Ritesh Batra, Oliver Stone, Rossy de Palma, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Nicolas Winding Refn, Tsai Ming Liang, Michael Haneke, Zoe Saldana, Brie Larson, Spike Lee, William Friedkin, Lou Ye, Laila Marrakchi, Haifaa Al Mansour, Kim Jee Woon, Chris Renaud, Kelly Reichardt, Jia Zhang Ke, Abderrahmane Sissako, Agnieszka Holland, Brillante Mendoza, Alexander Payne.
ÉQUIPE
- Direction Anne-Solen Douguet
- Programmation Valérie Costantino & Raphaëlle Chichery
- Photography Jean-Marie Nizan, Stéphane Bergouhnioux, Jean-Louis Camus, Christophe Ecoffet & Philippe Ray
- Editing Jean-Christophe Marcot
- Costume designer Thomas Bordier
- Sound mixing Xavier Benoist - Pocket Studio
- Music Parigo
- Production Jean-Marie Nizan
- UniFrance Films Isabelle Giordano, Sébastien Cauchon, Xavier Lardoux & Hélène Conand
