A Journey Through French Cinema

- 2016
- France
- 3h 21min
- 12A
- Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
- Cast: Bertrand Tavernier
- UK release: 15 September 2017
A personal account of French cinema by one of France’s most consistent and chameleon-like filmmakers. Tavernier gives an account of his own journey to filmmaking as well as celebrating other great talents, and doesn’t shy away from the failings of directors such as Renoir and Melville. His passion is contagious.
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A Journey Through French Cinema


Enthralling, informative and deeply personal documentary from the celebrated filmmaker
Released elsewhere as 'My Journey Through French Cinema', as that title suggests, Bertrand Tavernier's three-hour documentary is a personal, nay autobiographical account of French cinema, charting the films and filmmakers that made him fall in love with…
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