‘An Impoverished Vocabulary’
Why words matter
My obsession with the French New Wave is not unknown to my readers.
There are many reasons why I study the films from French directors from the 1930s through the 1970s. Partially because I am a cinephile, and I have already worked my way through Hollywood’s Golden Age of Cinema, which I can recite chapter and verse. The dressmakers, the makeup artists, …