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To conclude, French New Wave has a completely and original aesthetic system. Based on the research that revealed by the film critics and the media, we can clearly see that the films that directed by New Wave famous directors are including the unprecedented elements such as the comparable cinematic movements that happening everywhere, which completely reflected the message of the social and cultural change after the occupation and the wars. Although the New Wave has influenced by Italian…

Godard used a few difference camera angles and styles such as iris shot, close up, medium and wide shots, and camera movement. Godard also used many jump cuts and quick cuts to shift between scenes. For instance, in the beginning, he used jump and quick cuts of close up shots of Michel and a woman that let the audience have the illusion of Michel is having a very close relationship with with that woman. As Godard switch to a wide-angle shot, that’s where we know we have been fooled and they were…

JEAN-JAQUES BEINEIX: Beineix started his career as a assistant director on fifteen adverts before releasing his first feature in 1981 ‘Diva’, which attracted the attention of key post-modernism theorist Frederic Jameson, who identified it as the first French postmodern film. Despite ‘Diva’ becoming a cult film for the youth of the time, the French film critic establishment did not appreciate the superficial aspects of its postmodern aesthetics. It was simply considered an irrational attachment…

vision is reflected in their work. In the New Hollywood era genre and auteurism started to intersect due to the fact that auteurs were able to make their mark in genre films. They were able to put their personal spin on a formulaic genre film. Coppola did a lot of what we would call genre films over the course of his career, but due to his label of auteur, none of these films seem to carry any classic tropes of the genre they belong to. 70’s cinema, or the New Hollywood era, was the renaissance…

Chung King Express has been celebrated for its innovative use of popular cinematic formulas. This is because of Hong Kong new wave film movement. This movement derived from the French new wave is to rebel against conventions. It is to experiment with new equipment and styles, making a social and political statement at the same time. Wong Kar-Wai tries to make a statement about Hong Kong at the time as Hong Kong was being handed back to Peoples republic of China. Wong Kar-Wai experiments with…

The French New Wave, also known as La Nouvelle Vague in its home country, France, came to be during the 1950s and 1960s. It was created by a group of French filmmakers who proved that they don’t need mainstream cinema to create and produce successful films. Even if the New Wave wasn’t really a conscious movement it left a legacy with films like À bout de soufflé/Breathless (written and directed by Jean-Luc Goddard). French New Wave rejected the idea of a traditional story in films – they didn’t…

The film Les 400 Coups is autobiographical, through the character of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut recounts the struggles of his upbringing as a troubled young adolescent in Paris. Les 400 Coups (a French expression meaning to “raise hell”) shows the result of neglectful, or entirely absent, parenting as it is of youth delinquency. Antoine is certainly not blameless, many of his actions are dictated by necessity. He is a victim of circumstance. There is no doubt as to where our sympathies lie or…

obstacle unable to be hurdled within the industry, turned out to be one of French New Wave’s defining attributes. With little to no funding, directors had to find alternate ways to film while working on a very tight budget, which meant non-professional actors, little to no script, and innovative methods of filming (Hitchman). These alternatives to the traditional way of film production are responsible for the The French New Wave’s reputation as an audacious movement based on breaking the rules,…

Le Corbeau, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, was released in 1943 during World War 2 in France. The film was produced by Continental, a French film production company bankrolled by the German government to produce lighthearted and joyful films that had no political plot, but rather played on and exploited the French culture. Clouzot got fired before Le Corbeau release due to it’s harsh look at provincial France, which was quite the opposite of what the Germans wanted. In the film, Clouzot…

I chose to write about The French New Wave which is also known as “La Nouvelle Vague”. The French New Wave happened during 1958 to 1964. The French New Wave was started by a group of French film makers who wanted to create their movement in film and they did that by changing how a film could be made. The French New Wave turned out to be the biggest movement of them all and also made an impact on all filmmakers. Some of the main directors who created the new wave were, Jean-Luc Goddard, Fracious…