nouvelle vague
Noun
Meaning
an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s
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In all coherence with the literary nouvelle vague although not in close association to it, and addressing a much less restricted pool of readers, the New Wave was reversing the standard hero's attitude toward action and science.
His later films have been marked by great formal beauty and frequently a sense of requiem— Nouvelle Vague (New Wave, 1990), the autobiographical JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre (JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December, 1995), and For Ever Mozart (1996).
In 1960 the film adaptation directed by Louis Malle was released during the Nouvelle Vague movement.
Post–World War II 1940s–1970s A scene from Jean-Luc Godard 's Nouvelle Vague film Breathless (1960) Alain Delon was known as much for his beauty as well as his acting career and endured status as a leading man in French cinema.
ISBN 0-7190-7028-7 A partisan of the experimental cinema and friend of the New Wave (" nouvelle vague ") directors, Bassan grouped Besson with Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax as three directors who shared the style of "le look."
The label has released the soundtracks of Nouvelle Vague (ECM NewSeries 1600-01) and Histoire(s) du cinéma (ECM NewSeries 1706) by Godard.