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Released October 15th
Dive into a decade of French cinema with this new work!
GOLDEN EIGHTIES
The war between Louis de Funès and Marguerite Duras will not take place
Overview of French film production (1980-1989)
A book by Nicolas Brevière
Preface by Nathalie Coste Cerdan
14.6cm x 20.46cm | 760 pages
ISBN: 979-10-93798-26-4
Film producer Nicolas Brevière immersed himself in the 1980s, a vibrant, exciting period, emblematic of the evolution of the industry and the artistic heritage of French cinema. A period rich in upheavals, the effects of which are still felt today.
If producing a film is also the adventure of a man or a woman who decides to materialize the dreams of another in a surprisingly fluctuating and uncertain economic and legal context, while being part of a cultural universe, a "movement" made of convergences and contradictions, how was French cinema produced then? What risks were taken? Why did it work (or not)? Who and how did we produce such essential works as Alain Resnais's Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980), Patrice Chéreau's L'Homme blessé (1983), Éric Rohmer 's Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) or Agnès Varda's Sans toit ni loi (1985)?
It was after several years of research and the human adventure carried by numerous interviews with producers of the time that the idea for this book was born. A writing retracing, year after year and over ten years, all the great battles that punctuated the decade, and whose seismic tremors are still felt today. An essay that would be neither "theoretical", nor a practical guide on film production, nor even a compilation of anecdotes, but rather a living portrait of a certain golden age of French cinema. A panorama from which emerge the questions that have defined our cinema today: its political support, the concentration of film exploitation, the fragility of independent distribution, the explosion of television, the radical change in the consumption of images; In short, topics of burning relevance at a time when our system, which is described as one of the most virtuous in the world, finds itself once again besieged by dangers – from the emergence of platforms to artificial intelligence – which endanger our creative genius.
Released on October 15, 2024
