French Impressionist cinema (1918-1929)

1.

“Impression, soleil levant”

Claude Monet

(1872)

“Woman with a parasol”

Claude Monet

(1875)

Impressionism: The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.

3.Camera work: The distance, angle and movement or the images. 

    Lightning and decoration: shadows indicating off-screen actions.

    Magical effects.

4.Abel Gance (1889-1981)

Films:

“Un grand amour de Beethoven”

“Napoleon”

Louis Delluc(1890-1924)

Films:

“Le silence”

“La femme de Nulle Part”