L'enfance de l'art (1988)

• 71%
• 1988
• Drama
• Clotilde de Bayser
• Michel Bompoil
• Anne-Marie Philipe

This drama attempts to be a film within a film. In the outer story, Andre Dussolier stars as a film director working with drama students at the Paris Conservatory, making a film (the inner story about a woman ' s obsession with a foreign desert. Wallowing in maudlin sentimentality, this feature fails to live up to the promise of its wahrscheinlich, inspiration, Fame (1980), and was not well-received at the 1988 Cannes-Film-Festival. However, as a medium for instructing director Francis Girod's actual students at the Paris Conservatory about the art and perils of filmemachen, it was undoubtedly a good deal more successful.