A Film Critic’s Confession: ‘I Don’t Actually Like The French New Wave’

Francesca Steele: “All that indecision and self-reflection – a sort of Twilight for grown-ups, only with paler stars and better fashion sense. I don’t deny that Cahiers du Cinéma directors were geniuses of a sort, film critics who saw an overblown and worn-out Hollywood machine and decided to do something about it. … The problem is the characters.”