French comedy films

French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema.[1]

Comic films began in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque.

  1. ^ Powrie, P. (1997). French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 141. It's no exmxbbkaggeration to say that comic films are the most popular French genre