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French Documentary Cinema

8-29 April 2004, National Film Theatre, London

Details of the forthcoming season of French documentary films at
the NFT are now available at:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/frenchdocs/

This season presents a documentary history of France from the
early 1900s to the present through the work of filmmakers such as
Nicole Vedres, Noel Burch, Henri Storck, Marc Allegret, Georges
Lacombe, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir, Marcel Ophuls, Rene
Vautier, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean Rouch, William Klein,
Marielle Issartel, Charles Belmont, Agnes Varda, Jean Eustache,
Jean-Louis Comolli, and Yamina Benguigui.

The season is organised thematically and chronologically as
follows:
1. 1900s: The 'Belle Epoque'
2. 1910s: The Great War
3. 1920s-1930s: The Empire
4. 1920s-1930s: The Left
5. 1940s: The Occupation
6. 1950s: Anti-Colonialism
7. 1960s: The New Society
8. 1970s: The Events of May 68
9. 1970s: Women's Liberation
10: 1970s: Provincial Life
11. 1980s: The Socialist Republic
12. 1990s: The People of France

In addition, Saturday 17 April (10.30-15.30) is given over to
screenings and discussion on the theme of 'The French
Documentary Tradition'. The films to be shown are Georges
Rouquier's classic study of rural French life, FARREBIQUE (1944-
45) and Denis Gheerbrant's recent enquiry into working class lives,
ET LA VIE (1991).

The season precedes the publication in May of THE FRENCH
CINEMA BOOK, a new collective history of French cinema
published by the British Film Institute:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/bookvid/books/catalogue/details.php?bookid=4
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