PARIS A widely circulated French daily, Le Monde, published an article on Iranian cinema in one of its recent issues in which the daily's arts columnist has talked about the "Hollywood threat" for the Iranian "beautiful movies".
"If one day the Iranians would decide to permit the imports of the American movies to be screened in their country, the beautiful Iranian movies might loose their market at home," Le Monde commented in an article entitled the most beautiful films of these magician Iranian directors'.
The French newspaper refers to the recent screening of 50 selected Iranian movies at Paris autumn festival, where "the French can get better acquainted with the different genres of the Iranian cinema, ranging from family melodramas to political films and from action movies to those that narrate the directors' personal intuitive experiences." A picture of a scene from Kamran Shirdel's The Day It Rained' adorns the arts page of Le Monde and the article on Iranian cinema also lists the names of the numerous Iranian films and cinematographers that have won important film awards around the globe during the recent years.
Le Monde's arts commentator has at the end referred to the decreasing of the Iranian government's financial aids to the movie industry and the gradual privatization trend as two major causes which have barred the progress of the Iranian young and talented cinematographers in their activities.
(IRNA)