French New Wave Cinema: Living through life, how complex can that be?
The New Wave of French Cinema The Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), is a movement that emerged in French cinema in the late 1950s and followed until the mid 60s. French New Wave is highly regarded as a transformative movement in the history of not just French or European cinema, but worldwide cinema. The movement can be simply discribed as innovative, which comes from the use of new visual and storytelling techniques, bold structures and an overall disagreement with traditional filmmaking features, and as a result, rejection of them in favour of modernized brave choices. The New Wave is a slap in the face to the rigid and conventional approach of the older standardized classic French cinema. The movement’s films were raw, which drastically differentiated them to the polished elegant productions of the past movements. The films always focused on discussing the profound meanings and elements of life through different ideas and techniques, which in return blurred the line between li...