French Impressionist Cinema is the term applied to a particular group of French filmmakers from the 1920's to the 1940's.
Film scholars who have studied the films have been swathed with difficulty in defining exactly what this movement specifically entails or if it should even be considered a movement at all.
One of the most widely accepted definitions of French Impressionist Cinema dictates that it explores the process of representation and signification in narrative film.
This is not accepted by all, as some scholars refute this definition entirely, while others refute the idea of French Impressionist Cinema as a movement.