FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Osaka Elegy, Les Visiteurs, Kenji Mizoguchi
Document Summary
Disillusionment: a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be . With the children are watching us that something could be . Italy - the neorealist impulse to get real. Freedom to express oneself the disillusionment of that larger historical moment. France: many in the film industry flee the country. Vichy france, production continues under the watchful eye of the nazis" puppet government. Meanwhile in occupied france, germany cuts off imports of films and monitors french film production. No films could be overtly critical of authority figures (certainly germans) so filmmakers found ways to make films that could be entertaining for people (escapist). For example les visiteurs du soir (marcel carne, 1942) not a film about the. Nazis, takes place in a fantasy world, but for french people during the time, could be understood as the real world.
