Word: aussie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early fifties, his short Les Statues Meurent Aussi was banned by the French Censor and eventually released only after a third of its footage had been cut. Commissioned by Presence Africaine, a black group inside France, and dealing with the effect of European colonization on African art, the film struck the French government as an attack on colonialism. Says Resnais: "Some people think movies can be very dangerous. I don't think so. I don't think movies can change the world just like that...