French New Wave

The movement has its
roots in rebellion

Late 50s early 60s

Used portable equipment with
little or no set up time,
the New Wave way of filmmaking presented in documentary style

Objective Realism, Subjective Realism, and Authorial Commentary created narrative ambiguity in that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end

Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, and many other film directors were placed high on a pedestal while standard Hollywood films bound
by traditional narrative style were criticized.

Cahiers du cinéma directors

• Claude Chabrol
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Jacques Rivette
• Éric Rohmer
• François Truffaut

Left Bank directors

• Henri Colpi
• Chris Marker
• Alain Resnais
• Agnès Varda
• Jacques Demy

1959

Truffaut

Truffaut features a wide range of cinematic explorations including a film adaptation of
Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451,
Truffaut’s only English language film.

#178

NOt ranked

100%

Les Quatre Cents Coups
or
The 400 Blows

'to raise hell'
or
"to live a wild life"

"to do the 400 dirty tricks"