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My Journey Through French Cinema

Voyage à travers le cinéma français

2016

Bertrand Tavernier

Documentary, Self: Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Fremaux, Jacques Becker ...

7.0

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Documentary 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Essential viewing for cinephiles and Francophiles alike (...) Masterfully exploring some of the forgotten glories of French movies"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Tavernier’s movie offers a unique kind of vicarious upbringing, inviting outsiders to share in an obsessive French cinéaste’s formative film experience"	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Tavernier’s personal connections and insider knowledge give the documentary that extra dimension (...) In such fine company, the three hour running time passes in an instant"	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"Bertrand Tavernier’s exquisite documentary avoids mere hagiography by looking to the films themselves (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[It] delivers what it promises. Even so, 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."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A passionate, opinionated, drop-dead fascinating documentary (...) Focused, articulate, fairly bristling with information and insights, Tavernier not only has everyone's work at his fingertips but his fervor is also infectious"	POS
United States	John Hartl Seattle Times	"The variety of inspirations (not to mention the visual quality of the film clips) is astonishing (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"A smart and gregarious personal tour (...) It underlines a point too rarely made: Every film is an accumulation of things the average person wouldn’t notice."	POS

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