nouvelle vague
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The year’s finest films include looks at the lives of creators—Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon,’ Jean-Luc Godard in ‘Nouvelle Vague’ and a fictional movie star in ‘Jay Kelly’—and harrowing visions of war and catastrophe.
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a brash French hooligan and Jean Seberg as the American in Paris he loves against his better judgment, “Breathless” caused a sensation when it took its place as one of the first examples of what came to be known as la Nouvelle Vague, a.k.a. the French New Wave.
From Los Angeles Times
The film was based on an idea by François Truffaut, another icon of the nouvelle vague, and began shooting in Paris without a script.
From Seattle Times
Simultaneously, he’d been writing, shooting and producing his own projects — most of them not in the action genre, but dramas, comedies and even a silent film inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s nouvelle vague classic “Band of Outsiders” — aiming to build a reel and take his career into his own hands.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s extremely poetic and introspective, almost like a Japanese nouvelle vague from the ’80s.
From New York Times
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