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« Le cinéma est un art du présent. Ce n’est pas hier ou demain, c’est aujourd’hui ! »
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The statement places cinema firmly in the present moment. By contrasting “yesterday or tomorrow” with “today,” it says cinema is concerned with what is happening now rather than with the past or the future. “An art of the present” presents immediacy as central to how cinema expresses experience.
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