French impressionist cinema took place between 1918 and 1929 and was a time where a new generation of filmmakers began to explore film as an art form. The filmmakers thought that the filmmaking of France was boring and uninspiring and prefered the hollywood films that flooded the french film market during WWI WWI may be an acronym for: World War I World Wrestling Industry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Some impressionist directors formed their time between avant-garde projects and more profit-oriented films..

The style of the impressionist cinema derived partly from the directors beliefs about the cinema as an art form. These beliefs were expressed in poetic essays and manifestos which defined the directors as a group.