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Compared to action or fantastic cinema, contemporary French cinema privileges understatement and slow depictions of complicated and traumatic “real life” events. The course examines the complex transformation into images of identifiable life situations. Includes the basics of French cinema history, terminology of common cinematographic techniques, and the analysis of a variety of feature films and documentary by filmmakers such as Jacques Audiard, Agnès Jaoui, Abdekadif Kechiche, Gilles Lellouche, and Agnès Varda.