I think it's rather problematic for someone not to feel like he belongs to his soi-disant generation. I realised that it happens to be really burdensome to pick up the pieces and re-appropriate it as something reworked and not inherently yours. The question of authorship and originality becomes a pointless debate at times. I bet it was easier for Truffaut and Godard to start something new thus the innovation in cinema sometime between the 60s and the 70s. Though decades later there is a new innovation in French cinema which is called The New French Extremism through the likes of Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Bertrand Bonello, Jean-Claude Brisseau, etc. but it's not particularly groundbreaking at this time wherein almost everything has settled down into some kind of normalcy or level of acceptability among audiences.
En tout cas, I find myself greatly drawn to a huge number of old films. It's like sometimes I realise my taste is more like for someone who is twice my age. Think of it. I enjoy Stravinsky and Maria Callas, I love the 60s, and find Charles Aznavour extremely timeless. Well, it's either I'm over reacting about the fact that I have rather aged mentally way too much for my not so tender 22 ans. Other than that, I seriously hate it while movie houses here can't manage to show some old films like they do in France or elsewhere in the world. I feel the world is being dominated by a culture intended for the mindless youth. D'ailleurs, some will be making way for the re-showing of Pakula's thriller Klute avec Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Above all things, I am rather charmed by the pairing between Fonda and Sutherland which is as attractive and as dreamy as Yves Montand and Fonda in Godard's Tout va bien.
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