"New Wave" is a label launched in 1958 In an article in the Express by Françoise Giroud, to describe a group of young French filmmaker, starting with a bang, alongside the traditional industries profession, without technical skills, sometimes supported by private funds and employ interpreters for their age, none has yet gained the notoriety.
The term made a fortune and would soon apply for a new cinematic style, based on casual narrative, dialogue challenging, and amorality of "collage" unexpected, the prototype will Breathless Jean-Luc Godard. The audience was enthusiastic, and in 1960 forty-three new authors turned their first film. Among them, the nucleus was the most active critics of the weekly Arts and turbulent Cahiers du Cinema has : Godard addition, there was Francois Truffaut, who established himself immediately with Quatre cents coups , Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Pierre Kast, Eric Rohmer ... Others belonged to a generation ago: although they had already made films, short or feature film, they did not compromise with the "system" and they were therefore recognized as pioneers: and Roger Leenhardt Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Franju, Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais and above, who struck a blow in 1959 with a work of design and revolutionary bill, Hiroshima mon amour .
Still others joined the movement by accident or by design, but broke away quickly: the case of Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marcel Camus, Michel Drach, even Roger Vadim.
helping fashion, the former began the most controversial of the game, Marcel Carne to Henry Decoin. It would also add the names of Jean Rouch, talented ethnographer, who exerted a profound influence on the group's writer and journalist Chris Marker, the brilliance unbreakable; Armand Gatti, playwright, and a few outsiders who slipped and asserted themselves in the wake, more or less gloriously, then: Jacques Rozier, Michel Deville, Jacques Demy, Philippe de Broca, Henri Colpi, Jean-Daniel Pollet ...
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