Narration existed long before the advent of cinema, which borrowed from all other arts to invent its own ways of telling stories.

After all, it is well known that cinema without narration does not exist. However, cinematic narration is radically different from literary narration. The work confronts prejudices that often downgrade cinematic narration to the level of the script.

The narration of a film goes through all stages of its creation, including shooting and editing. It is embodied in the performances of the actors, passing through their bodies, their voices, and through every processing of the sound track.

It uses its own language, exploiting even the slightest absence, the darkness, the flash-back or flash-forward, the off-screen voice, and the special effects. In short, in cinema, concerning narration, everything depends on the direction, and this is precisely its specificity.

(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]