Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The French New Wave (1959-1968) was not just a style. It was a takeover. Young French cinephiles found studio cinema too stiff, too polished, too written in advance. They wanted to shoot the way you write a novel: freely, in the first person.
By moving from criticism to directing, they made the director the true author of the film. And they changed cinema worldwide.
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- 2First, a revolution of ideas
- 31959: Truffaut and Godard take the stage
- 4Out of the studio, filming Paris
- 5A global legacy
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary10 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
