Filmstudion

During the 1950s and 1960s, a cinematic revolution took place in Franceone that still attracts directors and viewers to this day. This movement was known as the La Nouvelle Vague, or the French New Wave: a loosely-linked group of filmmakers who, while never actually organizing together, embraced similar ideals of experimental editing, sociopolitical commentary, and rejection of classical forms of style and narrative.Many directors who are now recognized as leaders in the movement began as film critics at the same magazine, Cahiers du cinema, founded in 1951. These critics included Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette. Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge (1958), about a man who returns to his childhood home and finds his friend miserable after the death of his child, is usually considered the first film of the New Wave. More…