French New Wave
Sixties Parisian cinema
French New Wave refers to a movement in French cinema that emerged in the late 1950s and 1960s, characterized by unconventional editing, location shooting, and rejection of traditional narrative structure.
Directors like Godard and Truffaut challenged studio filmmaking with low budgets and handheld cameras.
The term now describes any artistic movement that breaks sharply from established conventions: a French New Wave of electronic music.
- cinéma véritéNaturalistic documentary approach
- jump cutsAbrupt temporal film transitions
- natural lightingLight from natural sources
- location shootingFilming at real places
- Cahiers du CinémaFrench film criticism magazine
film criticism · existentialism · youth rebellion · breaking the rules · auteur theory · fragmented narrative · Left Bank · café culture · modernism · freeze frames · experimental film · avant-garde · tracking shot · Godard · political unrest · 1960s · auteur · alienation
- film genreshorror, comedy, drama, action, romance
- French Entertainmentcabaret, chanson, Moulin Rouge, mime, cancan
- World CinemaJapanese cinema, national cinema, European cinema, Asian cinema, Indian cinema
- Art Cinemaart film, arthouse drama, experimental film, nouvelle vague, surrealist film
- directorial approachescinema verite, storyboarding, long takes, handheld camera, documentary style
- film movementsnouvelle vague, neorealism, cinema verite, Dogma