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My Journey Through French Cinema
Directed by
Bertrand Tavernier
Not Rated
2016
3h 12m
Documentary
,
History
7.7
100%
62%
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Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
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Cast of My Journey Through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier
Self / Director / Writer
Frédéric Bourboulon
Producer
My Journey Through French Cinema Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Mostly, there's Tavernier, a happy bear of a man. He's insightful, endlessly enthusiastic, all but encyclopedic in knowledge. He's also highly idiosyncratic. The first word in the title is "My," after all.
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
For the film fanatic, though, Tavernier's work is a treasure trove of French cinema through the decades from the first Gallic features and into the 1970s.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
Even if you think you are well versed in French cinema, there will be surprises to be found here. In fact, some enterprising programmer should consider building a retrospective around this documentary.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's tempting to say that Bertrand Tavernier's 3-hour-and-15-minute documentary... is a feast for everybody who loves classic Gallic movies. This is certainly true. But it's also a movie for people who just plain love movies
Buffalo News
Jeff Simon
This film is like suddenly re-introducing us Americans, 20 years later, to an almost- forgotten uncle who tells us stories, both good and bad, interesting and boring, about people he thinks we need to know but don't.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
More distinctive and revealing are the fannish tributes to tough guys Jean Gabin and Eddie Constantine, innovative composers Maurice Jaubert and Joseph Kosma, and forgotten auteurs Edmond T. Gréville and Pierre Schoendoerffer.
Under the Radar
Stephen Mayne
At its best, My Journey Through French Cinema shows different ways to look at films, and at its worst it still gives plenty of excellent recommendations.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
It perhaps emerges that, the more interested an artist is in a whole variety of different things, the less they may need to impose a single stamp on every work they create in response.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Whoever you are, you'll learn a lot.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
It would be a shame if the film were to be seen only by those already interested in French cinema. Anyone with an eye for grace, industry, resilience, rich shadows, and strong cigarettes should go along.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
This is the college film course you wish you had taken.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
Tavernier pays homage to the rich tradition of commercial yet personal, elegant but observant cinema that had already given French film a name before Godard and company drew up their canonical map, detonated their explosives and reassembled the pieces.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
Not just a niche film but a film for a niche of a niche.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
I was glued to the screen from start to finish and when it was over I wanted more. If you love film you can't afford to miss the experience of seeing Bertrand Tavernier's Journey Through French Cinema, especially on a theater screen
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Its explanatory title doesn't begin to convey just how exhilarating or inspiring a documentary this truly is, and how excellent a trip this well-respected French director takes you on.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A passionate, opinionated, drop-dead fascinating documentary essay about that country's film history put together by a clear-eyed enthusiast who was born to tell the tale.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
A selective, eccentric survey of the richest periods of French moviemaking and, by extension, film in general.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Tavernier's own adolescent obsession with the films of Jacques Becker gets the movie off to a choppy start, but the variety of inspirations (not to mention the visual quality of the film clips) is astonishing.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
Essential viewing for cinephiles and Francophiles alike.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Bertrand Tavernier's exquisite documentary consistently avoids mere hagiography by looking to the films themselves.
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