INTERPRETATIONS, ACTUALITIES
End of cinema
The author
gives a pessimistic comment on the current state of film art. The principal
idea is that the development of cinema went hand in hand with the birth and
development of modernism in other arts, and the author concludes that film
as art is at its best when it acknowledges its modernist roots, rejects conventional
connotations of realism and questions the primacy of narration. He singles
out the decade of the 1960s, the period marked by the triumph of formalism
and auto reflexive and referential genre, and proceeds to quote Hungarian
film scholar B. Nanay who wrote that Antonioni’s, Godard’s and Resnais’ films
presented a fragile balance between narrative films and non-narrative avant-garde
film. The balance was broken at the beginning of the 1970s with the domination
of conventional narrative films. The author also claims that film criticism
is in crisis because it is mostly descriptive, more often making subjective
instead of analytical evaluations. Ronald Bergan |