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Joe Queenan's fine piece about revisiting classic French movies is all the excuse I need to re-run Nouvelle Vague's clever take on a famous scene from "Bande à part". Queenan finds that Godard's work has dated much less well than Truffaut's. And he's admirably frank about the rest:
Camille Paglia is deep into Fassbinder, while Lynsey Hansley laments the disappearance of difficult foreign films from mainstream TV. I still have vivid memories of watching a sharp and sexy Kafka-esque satire called "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion". Most of it went clear over my 13-year-old head, and I've never seen it since, but it still haunts me all these years later.Reassessing the new wave now, I find that the films I loved when I first saw them 40 years ago are still films I love; that the films whose ingenuity and impudence I admired at the time are less appealing now; and that a lot of the films I never saw at the time seem better left unwatched.
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