Film Style
In her study of French cinema since the French new wave, Claire Clouzot described Franju's film style as heavily influenced by his predecessors. Clouzot described it as "a poignant fantastic realism inherited from surrealism and Jean Painlevé science cinema, and influenced by the expressionism of Lang and Murnau". Franju's focus of the film was on visuals which he claimed marked a director as an auteur. Franju claimed to "not have the story writing gift" and was focused on what he described as the "putting into form" of the film.
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