Random images with no relationship to one another. Very dull.
Toward the end of the 50s, French director Francois Reichenbach spent a year and a half traveling across the United States, filming whatever piqued his interest. The result, “America as Seen by a Frenchman,” is a random collection of images that jump from location to location without a narrative thread. A visual time capsule of sorts, the film is a set of glimpses of the country on the cusp between two decades. Because it was shot before the turbulence of civil unrest, assassinations, an unpopular war, and the coming of age of the baby boomer generation, the movie has the nostalgic feel of a bygone era.<br /><br />Among the brief episodes are shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, an annual recreation of covered wagons heading west, a Santa Monica fashion shoot, an energetic dancer (Look closely. Is that Mary Tyler Moore?), massive farming equipment at work, attractions at Disneyland, a prison rodeo, a festival of twins, several parades, a Red Cross class for fathers-to-be, kids playing street games, a diving horse, Soap Box Derby, teenagers blowing gum bubbles and flirting, and a newsboy on his bike delivering newspapers. There’s even a little boy eating the Kitchen Sink, an enormous ice cream sundae. If you remember Jahn’s restaurants, you’ll remember the Kitchen Sink.<br /><br />The film is rather mundane until a section turns up about juvenile delinquents in a line-up and being fingerprinted by the police. There also are images that reveal the deep-rooted segregation of the period. The narration doesn’t comment on it. We just see it.<br /><br />An overly orchestrated score by Michel Legrand often sounds silly, as when it accompanies a shot of a harvester coming over a wheat field horizon or attempts to make ordinary, non-dramatic images seem more important than they are. The score would have been more at home in a low-budget Biblical epic.<br /><br />The primary problem with the film is its complete absence of a point of view or, for that matter, a point. Reichenbach made short documentaries for most of his career, but they had themes and were focused. “America as Seen by a Frenchman” is like looking at hundreds of unedited pictures taken on a cross-country vacation. They’re interesting to a degree, but without meaningful narration or cohesiveness, they make for a long slog without much of a payoff. The director is eclectic in his choice of subjects. Anything that caught his fancy is included. The film may have played well in France, where viewers could get a sociological glimpse of American life. For an American viewer, however, seeing the activities, clothing and hairstyles of 60 years ago may be the film’s main attraction.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Blu-ray release include a video appreciation of the film, image gallery, booklet containing a critical essay, and reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork.
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