I've Loved You for So Long and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

French films such as I’ve Loved You for so Long and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly retain the auteur theory. These films reveal the reality of life and the endings illustrate the inconclusiveness of life. I’ve Loved You for so Long depicts the challenges of love and family and questions morality. The film deals with the issue of euthanasia in an unique way through the implementation of it by a mother. The viewer sympathizes with the mother and learns to accept the fragility of life through her and her son’s relationship. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tells the story of the editor of Elle and his confinement and eventual release from locked-in syndrome. The film realistically portrays his ultimate death, a characteristic, which American cinema would not portray most likely. French cinema does not cloud the truth but calls attention to it.