Moolaadé (2004)
It was in 1954 that François Truffaut published his Une certaine tendance du cinéma français in the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma , which was followed by André Bazin 's De la politique des auteurs a year later, key essays among several in which their contemporary French cinema was being criticized in that periodical for producing "soulless", commercial films, put together by directors who were satisfied in being mere metteurs-en-sc ène (stage-setters) instead of true auteurs , due to their shooting movies without imprinting any personal style to their work. Despite actually being a reaction to the way French government allocated funds for film financing, prioritizing directors with a track record of box office hits in detriment of newcomers, the idea that a film is the reflection of the creative vision of its director would be formalized by Andrew Sarris in his 1962 essay Notes on the Auteur Theory . Greatly influenced by his French counterpa