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Raymond Cauchetier, Whose Camera Caught the New Wave, Dies at 101 A self-taught photographer, he created indelible images on the sets of a French revolution in film, though he was not recognized for them for decades. Raymond Cauchetier’s famous photo of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as they were filming Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” (1960). He captured actors in unguarded off-camera moments.Credit...Raymond Cauchetier Feb. 26, 2021 Raymond Cauchetier, the renowned French photographer who documented the revolutionary early films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other Ne...

5. Autumn Sonata (1978) Few films portray mother-daughter relationships as succinctly and realistically as Autumn Sonata. Bergman was the authority in portraying dysfunctional-families on screen. Many of his most famous films like Cries & Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, and Scenes from a Marriage are among the truest depictions of family life put on film. In a way, many of his films are the opposite of melodramatic. But it is possible for a film to be both jarringly real and melodramatic. It is rare and difficult for a film to achieve this, but Autumn Sonata does. It is the story of a mother�...

Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy, who together and separately had been making films for 30 years, began a new one in April, 1990. It was about his childhood memories. If you have seen Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a musical set in a garage and featuring singing mechanics, you may have guessed that Demy grew up as the son of an auto mechanic. "Umbrellas" won all the awards - the prize at Cannes, the foreign language Oscar - and Demy made such others as "Lola" and "Donkey Skin," often centering around the songs he remembered from his youth.

Commentary: How French comedy of manners 'Call My Agent' became an American sensation Robert Lloyd © Provided by The LA Times Camille Cottin plays an actor's agent in the Netflix series "Call My Agent." (Christophe Brachet / Monvoison Productions / Mother Productions / FTV) That feeling when you have eaten all the candy in the house and you look on the doorstep to find that someone has sent you a 1-pound box of assorted nuts and chews is pretty much how I felt learning that a fourth season of "Call My Agent" had landed on Netflix. The series, called "Dix Pour Cent" ("Ten Pe...

France is the place where it all started; the beginning of the medium we’ve so come to love. Since then, the country has always stayed in the top, re-innovating the artform with every decade and every generation. The medium has a lot to owe to its birth country and the many French filmmakers that helped revolutionize it. Makers like George Melies, Jean Vigo, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy and many, many more, some present in this list. A country with so many brilliant directors and films of course has a lot of films that go overlooked, even though they’re just a...