Summary: French Impressionism

French Impressionism relies on the inner drama and the psyche. This movement i also based on the theory of photogenie where it is concerned with the quality that objects take on when they are photographed. This movement focused on framing instead of a long narrative storytelling.

Since before, there are no sounds in film, it is hard to understand what the story is in a French Impressionism movement. In the silent era of films, French Impressionism is the most used movement but when the sounds came in 1929, impressionism falls because the movies got expensive and filmmakers can't afford to do it.

The techniques in this movement is the use of superimposition of one image over another image. The use of blurred and distorted images is also present in this movement. Subliminal cuts are used and filmmakers really used editing and camera techniques to force viewers to watch and think for it.

This is also the movement where triple and double images in a frame began. The shortening of shots build tension in the story. In this movement, the camera would have to move to get the character's point of view.

Telephoto lenses and widescreen ratio are first used in this movement.