The French film industry's current financial crisis and its impact on creation: the example of Jacques Doillon's Raja (2003)
| Autor: | Maryse J. Bray, Agnes Calatayud |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in European Cinema. 2:199-212 |
| ISSN: | 2040-0594 1741-1548 |
| DOI: | 10.1386/seci.2.3.199/1 |
| Popis: | Although Jacques Doillon is amongst the major film-makers in France, his recent project found no financing in spite of its relative cheapness. According to Doillon, this was because his scenario did not fit within the light-entertainment focus of financiers. Indeed, funding films that do not conform to a Hollywood model has become a particularly fraught issue in France. Frustrated in his original ambition, Doillon then embarked on the filming of Raja in Marrakech (Morocco). This film depicts the unsuccessful love story between a blase, middle-aged Frenchman (Pascal Greggory) and Raja, one of his maids played by the newcomer Najat Benssallem. One of the first temptations is to read the film as a parable for the power relationship between rich industrialized countries in the North and emerging nations in the South. Our article however proposes a different interpretation of the narrative: in our view, the film can also be seen as an allegory for the conflict-ridden relationship between film-makers an... |
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