The New Wave $1.69 AUD
Category: The Arts
Cool. Auteur. Jump cut. Godard. Truffaut. New Wave.
These were the words on every film lovers’ lips in the late 1950s and 1960s. A new type of cinema was exploding on screen.
The French New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague, was one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema. This style of cinema dazzled and divided audiences and critics. It was not an organised movement but a broad sweep of ideas, many different films-makers and hundreds of films.
The phrase Nouvelle Vague was first used in the magazine L’Express in 1957. Soon it became a nickname for the new French film directors. In France between 1958 and 1962 ninety-seven filmmakers made their first feature. So many new directors promised a new type of cinema.
