FREN 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Planet Earth Ii, French New Wave
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Include examples from french new wave and video lectures. However, that message sent by the author is, more often than not, ambiguous since it could relay emotions, a fictional story, a historical report, or anything even remotely on the same spectrum. Fortunately for us, there exists films that are vague and abstract beyond initial comprehension (warhol"s empire) that quite literally presents us with nothing more than a still picture and if we"re lucky, different times of day (warhol"s empire ii). Therefore, i believe that directors are certainly capable of producing films that are almost devoid of content or a story to tell. Alternatively, i also believe that it would be nearly impossible to produce a film that is completely devoid of form. Now, i say almost devoid as opposed to completely devoid because it doesn"t seem plausible for a work of art (say, a film) to utterly lack content.
