Stylish Cinema: French New Wave Part 1

Breathless is a must see, not only from a cinema standpoint but also from a style one. This film is directed by Jean-Luc Godard, takes place in 1960, and is part of the French New Wave cinema movement. This is one of those movies that has helped craft the idea that the French just get it when it comes to style. 

A bout de souffle(1960)

(Breathless) 

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Trailer

Stripe obsession? Absolutely, and I love it. I love that these looks are timeless. 

French New Wave

 (What is French New Wave anyway?)

"Although they admired many of the studio films being made at the time, they also felt that most mainstream cinema, especially in France, was not expressing human life, thought, and emotion in a genuine way. Many of the popular movies of the era, they argued, were dry, recycled, inexpressive and out of touch with the daily lives of post-war French youth.

While the Nouvelle Vague may never have been a formally organized movement, its filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of the‘cinéma de qualité’ (‘cinema of quality’), the pompous and expensive costume pictures that dominated the French filmscape at the time. Besides being made to impress rather than express, these films generally afforded their directors very little freedom or creative control, instead catering to the commercial whims of producers and screenwriters. "

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Darcy