‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ Is An Exhaustive, Frantic Sprint With Not Much To Say [Cannes Review]
Something of a cinematic seminar course, one content to marvel at a medium rather than critically engage it, “The Story of Film: A New Generation” has a lot to say about movies yet little to say about cinema. In his exhaustive, frantically analytical sprint through hundreds of motion pictures, director Mark Cousins connects ideas and shared themes to demonstrate a vast, shared conversation via screens big and small, yet refuses to grapple with some of the most pressing issues connected to the film industry of 2021.