La méprise : Yoshida / Godard

Yoshishige Yoshida, interview de décembre 2010 pour Midnight Eye a écrit: As I said before, I was heavily influenced by European cinema and wanted to work there as well. Especially French film, as I studied French culture and language at university. I liked many pre-war French films very much: the films of Renoir, for example. Although there are a few exceptions, like, perhaps, a few films by Jean Cocteau, generally speaking, I did not like post-war French cinema, probably till Godard's time. I preferred films like The Third Man to anything produced in France at that time [...] You see, when someone is asked what defines French cinema, of course there is no answer: film is something made by an individual director. I believe that it is possible to make films according to one stylistic principle, of course, such as the Russian montage movement, or political or other manifestos can guide directors into making a specific brand of cinema. However, as for my own personal case is concerned, I cannot define my work under any one meta-title. I myself was first influenced heavily by pre-war films or Godard.

wootsuibrick a écrit:Bizarrement j'ai plus pensé à Antonioni qu'à Godard devant les films de Yoshida... Sans doute une affaire de rythme plus que de motifs.
sauf pour ce qui est de "Bon à rien" qui est trop directement lié à "à bout de souffle". Y a aussi Eros plus Massacre qui est assez à part...