The New Wave is a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s.Although never a formally organised movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of the literary period pieces being made in France and written by novelists, along with their spirit of youthful iconoclasm , the desire to shoot more current social issues on location, and their intention of experimenting with the film form.
"New Wave" is an example of European art cinema . Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.
Using portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time, the New Wave way of filmmaking presented a documentary style. The films exhibited direct sounds on film stock that required less light. Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes.
The combination of objective realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end.
The four hundred blows(1959）
The 400 Blows is a 1959 French drama film , the debut by director François Truffaut ;One of the defining films of the French New Wave , it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement.
Written by Truffaut and Marcel Moussy, the film is about Antoine Doinel , a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a troublemaker.
Filmed on location in Paris and Honfleur , it is the first in a series of five films in which Léaud plays the semi-autobiographical character.
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic , as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave . [ 1 ] In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films.
Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. He also directed such classics as Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules et Jim (1961), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), Day for Night (1973) and The Woman Next Door (1981).
Breathless (1960 )
Breathless is a 1960 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard about a wandering criminal ( Jean-Paul Belmondo ) and his American girlfriend ( Jean Seberg ).It was Godard's first feature-length work and represented Belmondo's breakthrough as an actor.
Breathless was one of the earliest, most influential examples of French New Wave ( nouvelle vague ) cinema. Together with François Truffaut 's The 400 Blows and Alain Resnais 's Hiroshima, Mon Amour , both released a year earlier, it brought international acclaim to this new style of French filmmaking.At the time, the film attracted much attention for its bold visual style, which included unconventional use of jump cuts .
Breathless (1960 )
Band of outsiders(1964)
Band of outsiders is a 1964 Nouvelle vague film directed by Jean-Luc Godard .The film is an adaptation of the novel Fools' Gold (Doubleday Crime Club, 1958) by American author Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973).
The film belongs to the French New Wave movement.Godard described it as " Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka ". A minute of silence: In one scene, Arthur, Franz, and Odic are in a crowded café and decide to observe a minute of silence;as they do so the film's soundtrack is plunged into complete silence. This silence actually lasts only 36 seconds and is interrupted by Franz, who says "Enough of that."
Bande à part (1964) - Dance scene [HD]
Jean-Luc Godard ( born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic . He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague , or " New Wave".
To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s; his approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave.
Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views;he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy.Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.
Les Bonnes Femmes
Les Bonnes Femmes is a French comedic drama directed by Claude Chabrol .Les Bonnes Femmes is a French comedic drama directed by Claude Chabrol .
The film tells the story of four single Parisian women and their domestic and romantic encounters.
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol ( 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director , a member of the French New Wave ( nouvelle vague ) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.
Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock 's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity.This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme infidèle (1969), and Le Boucher (1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran , who was his wife at the time.
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