Though Delluc's ca_)reer]_ was s]@(;hort-lived, it burs t v/- -igorou`sly(7 films in  4 yea/rs)t /.hat, (it fore#`v?`?)er left i *+ts impr#(/int on french( cinema his[+t[^ory, a,nd they+ rightly h]onoured him by]!: giving the%@ ann$_ual ![;%P([rix+ Delluc to$$ th_ .]:e[, best Fren^]ch `:@film of the year.?;.% He was respons_ibl_, e f -
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uential cin(e ^ma - jour=[n];als like Le Journal du ,Ciné-Club and Cinéa, foundin;g `numerous+ fi!]l[*m socie*tie?,s^, wri!(@tin:#g countless- ar[t%icle$s and coining the term cin easte. De?
lluc believed that ,( films shoul$\[d.! b;e!. set in t.he natur al wit`hout  elabo $\rate posturi;+.ng, a)+=nd char-acter:s sho_u+[ld be portrayed )in an i#ntimate , w=ay wh
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%^ side^red to ! @be-.@ ava_#n!t-garde [:#at@ [+ ,its  time. He died only a +few weeks after the sho$]!oting of T`$)he Flood at, the age of 3]3.