Dive into a decade of French cinema with this brand new book!
GOLDEN EIGHTIES
The war between Louis de Funès and Marguerite Duras will not happen.
Overview of French film production (1980-1989)
A book by Nicolas Brevière
Foreword by Nathalie Coste Cerdan
14.6 cm x 20.46 cm | 760 pages
ISBN: 979-10-93798-26-4
Film producer Nicolas Brevière delved into 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 woman who decides to materialize the dreams of another in a surprisingly fluctuating and uncertain economic and legal context, while also being part of a cultural universe, a "movement" made up of convergences and contradictions, how was French cinema produced then? What risks were taken? Why did it work (or not)? Who and how were 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) produced?
The idea for this book arose from several years of research and a human adventure involving numerous interviews with producers of the time. It's a work tracing, year by year over a decade, all the major battles that marked that period, and whose seismic tremors are still felt today. It's not a "theoretical" essay, nor a practical guide to film production, nor even a compilation of anecdotes, but rather a vivid 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 exhibition, the fragility of independent distribution, the explosion of television, the radical change in image consumption; in short, subjects of burning current interest at a time when our system, described as one of the most virtuous in the world, is once again besieged by dangers – from the irruption of platforms to artificial intelligence – that jeopardize our creative genius.
Release date: October 15, 2024
