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Apart from its strong indigenous film tradition, France has also been a gathering spot for artists from across Europe and the world.

For this reason, French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations.

Directors from nations such as Poland ( Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Andrzej Żuławski ), Argentina ( Gaspar Noe and Edgardo Cozarinsky ), Russia ( Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak ) and Georgia ( Gela Babluani, Otar Iosseliani ) are prominent in the ranks of French cinema.

Conversely, French directors have had prolific and influential careers in other countries, such as Luc Besson, Jacques Tourneur, or Francis Veber in the United States.

Another element supporting this fact is that Paris has the highest density of cinemas in the world, measured by the number of movie theaters per inhabitant, and that in most " downtown Paris " movie theaters, foreign movies which would be secluded to " art houses " cinemas in other places are shown alongside " mainstream " works.