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First Frame: The Revolutionary Lumière Brothers, Episode 447

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

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The History of French Cinema

French cinema really picks up at the end of the 1930s and does continue during World War II in spite of the occupation. We get this fabulous new creative period in France called the New Wave, and that's what the French are best at. Of what the French do, it's a different kind of cinema. Although if you give me a choice of go see a French movie or an American movie, I will probably pick the American movie.

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