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That wins him points as an auteur but not as an artist--someone who at least needs to make a show of finding his subject more involving than his own voice.
That old politique --the auteur theory, in plain English--was first articulated in the 1950s by a group of French critics, many of whom went on to become, as directors, fixtures of the Nouvelle Vague . In a nutshell, the theory--brought to these shores in 1962 by Village Voice film critic Andrew Sarris--held that, like any work of art, a film represents the vision of an individual artist, almost always the director.
Derek Walcott and I didn't want an auteur director.
The creepy part is, Upham is a sensitive, artistic type who announces early in the movie that he wants to depict the bonds that form among soldiers in combat--all of which also applies to the auteur of Saving Private Ryan , Steven Spielberg.
Tell me: when is a director simply a director and when an auteur?