BackThe Beauty of the Real
What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses (book in English)
by Mick LaSalle
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- actresses, French cinema
- Publishing Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 248 pages • 31 €
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm) - ISBN
- 978-0-8047-6854-2
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Book Presentation:
Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent--a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real.
This book showcases a range of contemporary French actresses to an audience that will know how to appreciate them--an American public hungry for the exact qualities that these women represent. To spend time with them, to admire their flashing intelligence and fearless willingness to depict life as it is lived, gives us what we're looking for in movies but so rarely find: insights into womanhood, meditations on the dark and light aspect's of life's journey, revelations and explorations that move viewers to reflect on their own lives. The stories they bring to the screen leave us feeling renewed and excited about movies again.
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