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The pleasures of storytelling and passing on secrets in 80s French cinema. Plus, a few Belgian and Swiss films. One film per director.
The list is inspired by a comment made by Pascal Bonitzer in Cahiers du cinéma nr. 369: "Here, at the beginning of 1985, what strikes me most is the lack of storytelling in American cinema, and on the contrary, the extraordinary, albeit more or less unrecognized, narrative richness of a European cinema whose cornerstones and masterpieces are to be found in France."
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