Women from the past in the present: Image of Women in French Cinema (2018) Comme des garçons and Bécassine !

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French department- Faculty of Arts - Helwan University - Cairo - Egypt

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Presenting the image of women in cinema certainly seems to be a very ambitious work given the extent of the field of research. We intend to present, within the framework of interdisciplinary studies, the image of women in French cinema in 2018 through events and cinematic performances. We will limit our analysis to two films representing two feminine figures from the past updated by different medium.

The film entitled Comme des Garçons (April 2018) deals with the issue and history of the establishment of the first women's football team. Fact is mixed with fiction in this film to narrate in a comic form the struggle of the French woman in the sixties until her right to play the game of football, was recognized. Is French cinema trying to revive the image of the pioneering woman?
Also the character of Beccasine, the first French comic book heroine, comes back to life and is portrayed in a film bearing her name (June 2018). The director revives this character published at the beginning of the 20th century and presents it to the new generations, so what did the film add to this heritage character?
The updating of the image of women of the past and of their role in society goes hand in hand with their demands for parity in the present and marks in a practical way the adherence of their male directors to this spirit of equality.

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