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The term 'new French extremity' was first coined by critic James Quandt in 2004 in a deeply critical piece complaining about the violent turn that French filmmaking appeared to have take in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In the 2000s, a movement of transgressive films in France known as "New French Extremity" has been described as an arthouse horror film movement. [ 6 ] Although commentators have suggested some horror films have exemplified qualities applicable to "art horror" for many decades, the term became more widely used during the 2010s, with independent ...
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Since the late 1990s, a new group of transgressive artists has emerged, such as the Canadian artist Rick Gibson who made a pair of earrings out of human fetuses and ate a piece of human testicle. In China, several artists have produced transgressive art; these include Zhu Yu (who published images of himself eating what appeared to be a human ...
Although Quandt coined the term New French Extremity, he quickly acknowledged this was a mistake, and most writing since (e.g. by Horeck & Kendall, Mattias Frey, Asbjørn Grønstad, and others see it as existing far beyond France (think of The Idiots, A Hole in my Heart, A Serbian Film, Taxidermia, etc.)
French/Italian co-production [5] The Butcher: Claude Chabrol: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Pasquale Ferone: Thriller: French/Italian co-production [6] Cannabis: Pierre Koralnik: Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Paul Nicholas: Crime: French/Italian-West German co-production [7] Le Cercle rouge: Jean-Pierre Melville: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian ...
The former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin makes a cameo appearance. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang: Susanna White: Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Asa Butterfield, Rhys Ifans, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Smith: Period fantasy comedy: British-French-American co-production Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) Xavier Beauvois
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