Serge Daney — French Critic died on December 29, 1992

Serge Daney was an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image. Although highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work remains little known to English-speaking audiences, largely because it has not been consistently translated... (wikipedia)

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.