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The brilliant study of a single emotion in classic French films of the 1930s, including Jean Renoir's 1939 The Rules of the Game, which uses multiple perspectives to examine life in France at the end of the Third Republic. New wave filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s and their preference for genre mixing and a personal approach to cinematic production, in works like Jules and Jim and 400 Blows, by François Truffaut. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 film Amélie as a movie about life in Paris and as an homage to earlier popular French films.
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