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The New Wave (French: Nouvelle Vague, French pronunciation: [nuvɛl vaɡ]), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm .
Aug 13, 2015 · 10 great French New Wave films. As Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Vivre sa vie arrives on Blu-ray, we remember 10 of the best movies to come out of a movement that changed cinema forever. 13 August 2015. By Sam Wigley.
Nouvelle Vague (English: New Wave) is a 1990 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It follows the story of hitchhiker Lennox ( Alain Delon ) credited as Lui (He), taken in by a wealthy industrialist, Elena Torlato-Favrini or Elle (She), played by Domiziana Giordano .
May 15, 2024 · May 12, 2024, 9:31 PM ET (The Guardian) Ospina Cali Colombia review – giant of Latin American activist cinema explains himself. New Wave, the style of a number of highly individualistic French film directors of the late 1950s.
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- The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959) Essential Films - The 400 Blows. What is there to say about The 400 Blows that hasn’t already been said? It’s stunning, beautiful, heartbreaking, despairing, hopeful and liberating all at once.
- Breathless (A bout de souffle) (1960) Breathless - How World War II Changed Cinema. Breathless is largely regarded as the most defining film of the French New Wave, but why?
- Contempt (Le Mepris) (1959) Le Mepris - Restored Trailer. French New Wave filmmakers were massively inspired by the film movements that came before, including: German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism and the Golden Age of Hollywood.
- My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) (1962) Vivre Sa Vie - Trailer. It’s awfully hard for a movie to be more depressing than Vivre Sa Vie is. Director Jean-Luc Godard’s portrait of a young woman who becomes a prostitute is about as bleak as narrative cinema comes, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a great film.
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May 23, 1990 · New Wave: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine, Christophe Odent. Composed entirely by literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, Godard's film works as an allegory on film.
The term " nouvelle vague " (new wave) first appeared in a 1957 article by Françoise Giroud, journalist for L'Express magazine, and came to describe a style of cinema characterized by experimental storytelling techniques and distinct aesthetics, this due mainly to budget constraints and/or directors' idiosyncratic styles.
