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French Impressionist Cinema: Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style (December 1974)

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14 Le scénario est ingrdt au possible, les acteurs sont empoisonnés de théatre et m@me de conservatoire et enfin le mot économie a du 6tre sourfld plus d'une fois a Antoine. Oui, et avec cada gaucherie d'un gros effort sans expGrience suffisante."15 Riccioto Canudo took Léonce Perret to task for films that satisfied the public's taste for "albums of postcards."16 yet another symptom of the same attitude is the almost total absence of essays on the established commercial directors in Dellucts journals. In contrast to these film-makers Delluc and his followers elevated certain Impressionist film-makers. Although Dellue praised the work of Henri Roussel, Jacques Baroncelli, Leon Poirier, and Raymond Bernard, three directors--the Impressionists Gance, Dulac, and L'Herbier--seemed to him most promising.1/ The targets of Delluc's attacks seemed to have responded in kind. Feuillade wrote acidly to Cinéa-Ciné pour Tous that the fashionable term "pbhotogénie" could be found in an 1874 Larousse, 18 and in an interview he made it clear that he had no Sympathy for the avant-garde: Croyez-moi, ce n'est pas grace aux chercheurs que le cinéma gagnera sa place un jour, mais grace. aux ouvriers du mélodrame dont je me flatte d'étre un des plus convaingus. Ce que Louis Dellue nous | a confié me concernant est inexact. Je n'ai jamais dit: "Vous avez raison de chercher. Je suis trop vieux, moi, je continue." Je ne vise pas le moins du monde a m'excuser de réaliser Le Fils du Flibustier ou Vindincta. Je crois meme que crest aes Silaeeameemeene pe i as 2 . a Mor qui suis de plus prés de la vérité.19