The follow-up to Mark Cousin's massive documentary "A Story of Film" (shown in its entirety -- all 15 hours of it -- at TIFF a couple of years ago, takes a similar approach to the earlier doc, by providing a survey of how children are depicted in film. Cousins' voiceover describes how kids are portrayed in film along with some of the techniques used by film-makers to tell their story.
He's an unabashed proponent of world cinema and most of the examples he shows are from countries other than the US.While I thought the earlier doc had more to say about the development of film as an art form (for the curious, TCM is running this doc on Mondays at 10 pm, along with many of the films cited in the documentary), there is much on offer here. Recommended for fans of cinema.
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