The narrative film uses chronological reality to tell a fictional story. Film scholars consider the narrative film to be one of the major styles of filmmaking, along with the experimental film and the documentary film. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... An experimental film is a film organized neither as narrative fiction nor as non-fiction. ... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...

Unlike literary fiction, the narrative film has a real referent, called the pro-filmic, which encompasses everything existing and done in front of the camera. Only in fictional filmmaking, the pro-filmic represents a different, diegetic meaning: sets serve as locations and actors as characters. In diegesis the author tells the story. ...

Since the emergence of classical Hollywood style in the early 20th century, narrative, ususally in the form of the feature film, has held dominance in commercial cinema and has become popularly synonymous with "the movies." Classical, invisible filmmaking (what is often called "realist" narrative) is central to this popular definition. Certain films, however, have more experimental narratives (the work of Alain Resnais or neo-noir like Memento, for example), and Hollywood in itself has loosened some of its rules since the 1970s, adopting what some have called a "post-classical" style. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, but also recognised for... Neo-noir is a term given to the modern trend of incorporating aspects of film noir into films of other genres. ...