Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.
It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
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