The Crab Basket (1960)
Original title: Le panier à crabes
A French filmstudent writes an autobiographical scenario. Despite the lack of understanding and the obstruction he gets from the filmbusiness, he managed to complete his movie. The movie won a prize at the Cannes film festival, but his disgust for the filmbusiness didn't go away.
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A French filmstudent writes an autobiographical scenario. Despite the lack of understanding and the obstruction he gets from the filmbusiness, he managed to complete his movie. The movie won a prize at the Cannes film festival, but his disgust for the filmbusiness didn't go away.