« Dis-moi ce que tu filmes et je te dirai qui tu es » : l’image du cinéma français en Belgique francophone dans l’immédiat après-guerre ; « Tell me what you film, I’ll tell you who you are » : the image of French cinema in French-speaking Belgium in the immediate post-war period

peer reviewed ; Many interlocking factors play a role in the construction of the image of a people as seen by others, and the judgment passed on the film production of a country is one of them. This article is devoted to the perception of French cinema in French-speaking Belgium – once a ready and important outlet for it – in the immediate postwar period. At the time, French cinema suffered a relative loss of interest, in parallel to the deep crisis then affecting the broader image of France in francophone Belgium. Contemporary critics particularly emphasized three issues : « intellectualism »... Mehr ...