Eric Neuhoff’s nostalgic dig at current French cinema

“What do you criticize about current French cinema?” A question that journalist Éric Neuhoff had to answer in Le Figaro La Nuit this Wednesday. The film critic spoke with nostalgia of the actors belonging to the New Wave movement. A period “which made films become a novel on film”, he described. «Jean-Paul BelmondoBernadette Laffont, Gérard Blain… It’s the generational effect, they were all friends, they helped each other, they didn’t think about money. he insists. “Now the supporting actors are in the lead, that’s the drama.” For Neuhoff, actors like Pierre Niney or François Civil “would have been supporting roles in Lautner films.”

“There are too many films that are not at all necessary, with dialogue that sounds false, unfinished scenarios,” the writer developed. The latter criticized a “system” current “where films are fully paid for before release and no longer need to be released in theaters and where no one risks anything”. He also regrets a change in certain professions in the field. “There is no longer the guy who bet his shirt on a film he believed in. A producer is someone who picks up the phone, who convinces the region, the CNC, the television, to put the money in their place and who is practically an employee on a film. he says.