French Film Festival Experience

On Thursday evening I ended up watching the movie Un Soir Un Club instead of Renoir due to the earlier timing. This movie I found very depressing, due to the main characters struggle in coming into and back to the jazz genre. It showed elements of the struggle of musicians who want to make a living out of the career. I was not much of fan about the romance aspect with the woman Debbie, but I suppose most movies need that element of romance included. Overall I was more impressed with the movies cinematography and lights rather than the story. I found it quite mediocre and the movie seemed to drag on.  The Byrd Theater, however had beautiful atmosphere. The architecture was beautiful and rich. It looked very formal and vintage. The rouge red carpets went very well with the gold detailed interior. I was actually surprised that their was not a lot of people that showed up, I was hoping that it would have been a bigger venue because the scheduled looked so busy. Also I was shocked to find out that they only took cash instead of credit cards, that element was more of a pain to me than an compliment to the olden time vintage atmosphere.

After I left the movie I grabbed myself a program and took it home to keep.

The following day I went to the free lecture on Friday morning. Marc Nicolas the General Director of La FEMIS film school-Paris, was talking about the support of the film industry in France. The national government directly supports the film industry with a system called a CNC and they are supported by imposing taxes on movie tickets, tv providers and some of that tax money was given to film makers to make more films. However due to modern technology today people would much rather do other activities than watch a flim, thus reducing the amount of tickets sold. This was an interesting lecture to listen to and was worth going to due to the convenience of proximity and price range. I found it quite enlightening because it showed similarities between the french film industry and the one in the U.S. I never really thought about how the tax on films worked. This was a good subject lecture to attend to.

While I was at the lecture, I found out my friend Jay, a cinema major attended the lecture as well. Due to the lack of time I was only able to put together a short interview about his interested in the French Film Festival.

Question 1: What was the most interesting topic of the lecture?

I found the most interesting topic about the lecture was the discussion about the taxes of film.

Question 2: Do you think that the tax on films in France is similar to the tax films in the U.S?

Yes, I feel as if they are similar in certain ways.

Question 3: Describe your french film experience.

I did not watch other films, but I did enjoy the content of the lecture. 

Over all the French Film Festival was better than expected, I learned a lot of new things and was able to see a movie that was foreign. From this whole entire experience I was able to broaden my horizons culturally and practice my comprehension of the French language.