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But once you really start digging into the French film canon, you’ll discover it’s not all cigarettes, existentialism and jump cuts. Hell, for New Wave pioneers like Jean-Luc Godard and Agnès Varda, challenging – and sometimes angering – the audience was a point of pride. And well, yeah, a lot of it is exactly like that. It’ll be loaded with philosophical musings, insufferable characters and arty embellishments, and generally be impossible to follow. For many people, if a film was made in France, the assumption is that it will be impossible to access.
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It’s not simply a descriptor of the geographical origins of a particular movie, but often a euphemism for pretension. In popular culture, ‘French film’ is a loaded term.