Director Bertrand Tavernier delivers an extensive, affectionate consideration of a half-century through his homeland's movie culture, from the early '30s to the dawn of his own filmmaking career. Tavernier's musings place particular focus on the long-neglected era framed between the end of WWII and the dawn of the New Wave, and the contributions of talents like Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Jacques Becker, Marcel Carné, and Jean-Pierre Melville are analyzed at length. 190 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack French; Subtitles English. In French with English subtitles.