The Great Acting Blog: “Create The Culture You Want To Be A Part Of”

The Great Acting Blog: “Create The Culture You Want To Be A Part Of”

When Jacques Rivette arrived in Paris, he stayed with the only friend he had.  A local bookshop owner told him Robert Bresson’s Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne was playing at a film club and Rivette went along. There he met Eric Rohmer who was a film critic at the time and curating the screening. Over the succeeding months, Rivette met Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut at various other film club screenings. They all became friends and later critics at the influential Cahiers Du Cinema, meeting regularly at it’s offices. These four cinephiles went on to form the hardcore of what became known as the French Nouvelle Vague, which produced some of the most important works in film history. Weary of the commercial cinema of the day, which they described as “cinema du papa”, they became filmmakers in their own right. They were prolific and innovative and completely redrew the language of cinema. They rocked it’s foundations and the reverberations are still being felt today, having a direct influence on all sorts of filmmakers from Jim Jarmusch to Quentin Tarantino.

If you cannot see the culture you want to be a part of, then create that culture yourself. 

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