Submitted by Sir Joshua, Mar 7, 2007 08:24

I can remember going to countless French flicks while in college in the late '60's with my girlfriend. I was hooked on Gitans and Gauloises, red wine and all that foreign 'new stuff.' Being Irish, in those days, even spaghetti was a novelty. The world was opening up for me and just about everything, including existentialism and French flicks were eye-opening. Now the world is a different place. I have come to realize that Existentialism, French films are for the most part a fraud. While I now know that pasta is fattening I still cheat now and then because it is so good, But I know that Existentialism is Euro-dispair grown out of World War II, something North Americans just didn't experience and so it really doesn't hold much interest for us and French cinema is alot of self-indulgent cafe-pense that has nothing to do with Starbucks and the American way. I still like Louis XVI chairs and while there is really nothing else like Versailles, it's over. The '60's and my newly arrived 60's have nothing to do with each other.

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