You can trace the differences in national approaches to cinema from the medium’s earliest days. Leading the charge from America, Thomas Edison shot carnival performers to create a spectacle. The Lumière brothers in France shot working people leaving a factory.
It would take a bit longer to unbraid the complicated reasons why the French have a vibrant cin…
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