Marcel L'Herbier as Self (archive footage)
Episodes 2
Le Cinéma et son temps: Les Années 20 ou Le Temps des illusions
November 12, 1978
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Les Années 20: De l'impressionnisme au cinéma pur
Season Finale
December 17, 1978
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Cinema owes a lot to this experimental laboratory that was the French avant-garde between 1919 and 1924. Based on this observation by Henri Langlois, Claude-Jean Philippe shows that these filmmakers (Louis Delluc, Marcel L'Herbier) accused their difference, like the impressionist group. On the other hand, at the end of the 1920s, everyone dreamed of a "pure cinema".
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