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France

After WWI Paris was the international center for avant-garde art: cubism, surrealism, Dadasim, Futurism

• Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali Un Chien andalou (1929)

• Jean Vigo Zéro de conduite (1933) banned until 1944

1930s and 1940s

• Jean Renoir Grand Illusion (1937) Rules of the Game (1939) poetic realism--long takes and deep focus

• Jean Cocteau Beauty and the Beast (1946)

• Robert Bresson Diary of a Country Priest (1950) psychological realism

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