Plus ca change...
Now, I don't mind Netflix, or other corps, paying corporate profit tax at location of sales.
The rest of this is daft. For starters, France has never met a tax it didn't like.
And mostly, you can't top-down and command-economy culture. Granted a lot of Hollywood blockbusterness is crap, but... people like it and should be free to watch it. And there are tons of clever, low key productions coming out of US studios and elsewhere, France's output is by no means exceptional.
France's problem is too much intellectual elitism in its elite, not understanding that French is a barrier and addressing that, and having a Ministre de la Culture in the first place. Individual French filmmakers do just fine when they aim to please the public, not the intelligentsia.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
