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Page 1: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

~1959 - 1964

FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA

Page 2: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

• Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption

• Government sponsored first time directors

• New generation of directors: - estb. romantic image of the young director fighting to make

personal films that defy industry

- many did become mainstream

- yet some popularized a new concept in cinema AND provided innovations in film form and style

FRANCE, LATE 1950S

Page 3: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

Main directors were film critics for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma• Studied, critiqued, wrote about film • Strong advocates of the Auteur Theory

- a film is the personal vision/ creative force of the director

• Helped each other by financing projects, sharing crew/professionals

NEW WAVE DIRECTORS

Page 4: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

Astruc: “a filmmaker should use the camera as personally as a novelist uses a pen”

Bazin: “the most distinctive nature of a movie was its form, not its content”

CONTEMPORARY CRITICS ON FRENCH NEW WAVE:

Page 5: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

Movement more than a style - as director’s personal vision was valued - but some common characteristics…

• Shot on location• Little-known actors and small crews• Intimate • Usually shot silent and post-dubbed• Plots centered around chance events• Directors referred to prior film traditions

- aware of their debt to film history (ex of this and auteur, *)

CHARACTERISTICS

Page 6: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

• Filmmakers' appeal with young audiences

• Based in Paris - chic fashion/cars, all-night parties, bars, jazz clubs…

• Themes: authority to be distrusted; political commitment is suspect; the femme fatale

• Open-ended narrative- ending of 400 Blows (freeze frame

technique a favored device for expressing an unresolved situation)

POPULARITY

Page 7: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

Jean-Luc Godard

Breathless (À bout de souffle)

DIRECTORS

François Truffaut 400 Blows ( Les quatre cents coups)

Page 8: ~1959 - 1964. Apolitical – reflected new acceptance of leisure and consumption Government sponsored first time directors New generation of directors:

Meaning: to raise hell, live a wild life, sow one's wild oats

Literal translation: to do the four hundred tricks

1959

Bogdanovich Article

THE 400 BLOWS