It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.