And "The Woman Next Door," a tense, tragic story of love unto madness (which Truffaut based in part on his own former relationship with Catherine Deneuve), casts a splendidly romantic camera-eye on its lead actress, Fanny Ardant, whose stardom and relationship with Truffaut the movie launched.
I really wanted to fall in love with the SX-70, one of the most romantic cameras of all time.
Like, shooting flashback scenes like fleeting memories, with a kind of impressionistic, romantic, vérité camera.
Try to be closer in, more -- well er romantic -- on camera.
Had to stand closer to the Silver Fox, act more -- well, er, romantic -- on camera.
The cinema added something invaluable to the romantic comedy: the camera's ability to place lovers in an enchanted, expanding envelope of setting and atmosphere.
I can only imagine what it must be like to try and start a romantic relationship with cameras watching.
Although it's a comedy of friction and humiliation, it is shot with a kind of romantic intensity, with a camera that floats, not restlessly but dreamily, as if every scene were a kind of love scene.
The Japanese might make up one of the biggest tourist markets on earth, but they are also the biggest sufferers of what is commonly known as "Paris Syndrome", a "transient psychological disorder" that occurs when the realities of the city can't match up to the romantic expectations held by camera-wielding visitors from Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
As the documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio has observed, "As soon as one points a camera, objectivity is romantic hype".
