Film noir ("black film") was named by French film critics and refers to the dark or shadowed look and mood of an American film style influenced by German expressionism. Plots center on events that often occur at night, and the characters tend to be cynical and disillusioned, but usually likeable. The male protagonist faces a moral dilemma or threat and there is usually an alluring, sassy, dangerous woman. The dialog tends to be crisp and often witty. These films evolved in the 1940s and lasted in a classic period until about 1960.
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Ever since French critics discovered and named "film noir," it has been a stylistic force in many foreign films. If they fuse noir with their own culture's quirks, the results can be arresting.
Genre that boasts a prefix, as filmmakers have increasingly transposed those atmospheric elements typical of one of the cinema's favorite genres from their original genesis in post-war angst to the stressed-out present day, so successfully as to banish any sense of the hybrid.
Film noir movies for the most part were made in the 1940s and '50s. Neo-noir films were shot mostly in the '70s and deliberately use some of the cinematography and writing styles of original film noir, with subtle differences.
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