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Paris Memories (15)
Directed by Alice Winocour
THE extraordinary benefit of having a national film culture is that this subtle and powerful medium can be used to process events of national significance for a mass audience and in an artistically satisfying and cathartic way.
But you’ll never have a national film culture until you reserve the majority of your screens for national product. That’s why it doesn’t exist in the UK (just go see what’s playing at your local Omni) but it does exist in France.
Paris Memories (a poor translation of Revoir Paris) is the kind of film that the French can make, and we cannot.
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