Of course, the product description is not the right one. Positif is none other than the famous French film journal, the best in France because it is at once serious and inquisitive, refuses dogmas (which Les Cahiers du Cinéma unfortunately espouses, even though some of its articles are of great value) and allows space for the films it chooses to defend. The layout and the black-and-white pictures give it a distinctive, beautiful look. If you can read French and are interested in reading about film, do not hesitate and subscribe to this magazine. Month after month, it sheds light both on the current cinema and the history of film Positif is often noted for its roughly 25-to-30-page-long forays into a topic (recently Robert Altman, or a study about Mizoguchi, Ozu and Naruse). Positif can boast that Variety calls it "by far the best film journal in Europe". From what I can read here and there, I guess it is true.
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