Positif
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| description | French film magazine |
| language | French |
| First edition | May 1952 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Web link | revue-positif.net |
| ISSN (print) | 0048-4911 |
Positif is one of the leading French film magazines.
It was first published in May 1952 and was always in journalistic competition with the Cahiers du cinéma, who were one year older . Quarrels flared up regularly between the two publications. Especially from the end of the 1960s, when the Cahiers saw the task of filmmakers and critics in subversion and found that the language of contemporary cinema was bourgeois and should therefore be destroyed, the Positif editors accused them of being an elitist " aristocracy " of supposed film connoisseurs, to be inaccessible and not communicative. Positif kept a more constant line over the decades, left, but not communist, secular , anti-Gullist and against the established society.
The monthly Positif does not belong to any media conglomerate; In 1991 it was bought by the editors. The editorial proclaimed a timeless, fashion free movie review beyond elitism and populism and rejects the distinction between art and entertainment films from. The anti-fashion stance brought long-lasting rejection from Godard . In addition to French cinema, the thematic focus was on that of the Romance countries, US cinema, British and Polish film.
Web links
- Positif website (French)