the period of new wave cinema was focused mainly lin the 1950’s and 60’s,
the new wave was created by British and french, however the main focus of new wave cinema was in Paris
The leading french film makers at the time .
jean- Luc goddard
Francois Truffaut
claude chabrol
Jacques Rivette
Eric Rohmer
All of these film makers shared a back ground in film theory nad were once film crtitics
L Pointe Courte (1954) by Agnes Varda was considered the start of new wave.
directors for french new wave and european art cinema
France
Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut
Italy
Frederico fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Pier paolo Pasolini
Other countries
Ingmar Bergman (swededn), Luis Bunuel
New wave was a discovary of american genre films, based on cinematic quality rather than literary value.
Focusing on the importance of personal exprestion of the director involving spontaneity and digression.
The new wave wanted certain reactions from it’s audience, stress, the experience of free choice, an absence of rational understanding of the universe, The sense of absurdity in human life
visual themes found within New wave cinema,
Used light weight hand held cameras
Light weight sound and lighting equipment.
Faster film stocks, less light..
Films short in less time and for less money.
New wave encouraged, improvisation and experimentation.
The films often had a casual natural look.
new wave was a result of a reaction against the french films of the 1940’s, which were filmed in studios,
film set in the past
films prior to new wave often were contrived and over dramatised.
A lot of trickery and special effects were used.
Breathless (1960)
• Reinventing film from the ground up
• Basis in American gangster films, but everything is deglamorized
• Location shooting, natural light, handheld camera
• Use of jump cuts, mismatches, and other violations
of continuity editing rules
• Self-reflexivity: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Bogart
• Jean Seberg: America/France
• Use of digressions and suspensions of action
• Reality of story/reality of film
• Ambiguities of character, of identification, of ending
French New wave - Film editing
Often done freestyke and never usually conformed with usual editing rules.
Jump cuts are used and is often discontinuous
Shooting on location Natural lighting Improvised dialogue and plotting Direct sound recording Long takes Many of these convention
The goal of this style of film editing is to ensure the audience remember that they are watching a fim.
Mood Shifts
Infatuation
Romanticism
Boredom
Often in French new wave cinema characters do not obied by usual stereotypical portrayals for eample
Heroes are often aimless, stylish and act silly
They also are made to seem cowardly and amoral
Jean-Luc Godard’s Influence on French New wave cinema
jump cuts
Elasticity of time
relative independance of sound and image
Focus on both narration and narrated
Self Reflective cinema
“Reality” of Images
Other New wav Films
1959
francois truffaut - ‘The 400 Blows’
Alain Resnais - Hiroshima Mon Amour
1960
Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless
Francois Truffaut- Shoot the Piano Player
1961
Jacques Rivette - Paris Nous Appartient
jean-Luc Godard - A Woman is a Woman
Alain Resnai - Last Year at Marienbad
1962
Frncois truffaut - Jules and Jim
Agnes Varda - Cleo from 5 to 7
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