Sunday, 20 September 1998

Auteur Theory

Auteur simply is the film criticism that considers the director of a film to be its primary creator


Auteur is the French word for 'author', Auteur theory draws on the work of a group of cinema enthusiasts who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma and argued that films should reflect a director's personal vision.

"A true film auteur is someone who brings something genuinely personal to his subject instead of producing a tasteful, accurate but lifeless rendering of the original material."


This suggests that in a sense, the films director is the author. The director has a personal style which controls the final product.

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