How have French films, filmmakers, and actors influenced the American industry?

french film was largely influenced by this, as seen when people like Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, and Rivette came of age as filmmakers and they saw no contradiction in rejecting the French filmmaking establishment while loving commercial Hollywood. Godard even said, “It was cinema that made us – or me, at least – want to make films. I knew nothing of life except through the cinema.” So, I would say that French film was heavily influenced by American film in that they loved the idea of Hollywood cinema and filmmaking, and then took that into their own world of youthful vigor and postwar reconstruction to create a more "casual" look suited to the culture. They were just a bunch of young kids with a pure love of cinema

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