Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the New Wave in the French cinema has finally run its course, critics both in Europe and this country are coming to the conclusion that the movement has produced the most significant advances in the history of film so far. France could boast of few first-rate directors in 1957-58, but today there remains little doubt that Paris is the capital of the film-world with Rome a very distant second. Although it is too early to ascribe definite trends to the New Wave, its history of intense experimentation has undoubtedly altered our concept of film...
...films set the style for the New Wave: Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows and Godard's Breathless, both shot in 1959. Both were the first feature films of established film critics, and both provided their directors with the opportunity of realizing ideas about film which for years had been confined to expression on paper...
...Truffaut develops the poetic possibilities of his subject, calling on a wide range of visual metaphors to convey his subjective message. In addition, the scene in which the hero is interviewed by a prison psychologist introduced the so-called cinema-verite technique of prolonged interviews which populates many New Wave films...
...third dominatic figure in the New Wave, Alain Resnais, has explored the possibility of entirely plotless films. His Hiroshima Mon Amour treated time and memory in the same evocative manner with which Faulkner treats them. Hiroshima included a large amount of newsreel footage, a technique also favored by Truffaut, to give yet another impression of time--that between the shooting of the film and an actual event...
...This film permitted him to be much more relaxed and spontaneous, qualities very essential to his kind of humor. While A Woman is a Woman may not be Godard's best work, the film proves beyond dispute that outright comedy is well within the compass of the New Wave...