Nouvelle Vague: history, characteristics and films of French cinema

Nouvelle vague It is one of an important aesthetic movement in cinema that began at the end of the 1950s in France.

It was a new way of thinking or audiovisual, questioning many elements of traditional French cinema and tracing freshness and innovation both in a way and not content addressed. Assim, she ends up greatly influencing audiovisual production in various parts of the world, including not Brazil.

François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard are considered great names for the sake of it, but it is not possible to filmmaker Agnès Varda, who years before the movement was released, has produced a cinema author na mesma linha do que viria depois.

History gives Nouvelle vague

In the 1950s, an important magazine was founded in France Cahiers du Cinema, dedicated to film criticism. A publicação tinha em seu corpo of nominee editors such as Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

These young critics were almost always quite harsh in their analyzes, releasing their productions from ancient times, standardized and semi-creative.

Assim, André Bazin, two founders of the magazine, launched a challenge to them: to produce their own films. This is the context that Claude Chabrol produced Nas claws do vice (1958), considered a framework at the time.

From then on, it has been forcing a motion for cinema renovation, with productions used and energy cheias. Such movement levou or nome of nouvelle vague, which in French means "nova onda".

It is important to highlight the importance and ineditism of the filmmaker Agnès Varda, who previously, in 1954, produced La Pointe Courte, considered a precursor gives nouvelle vague.

In 1959, other two films stand out and become icons of the movement, são eles Harassedby Godard e You misunderstoodby Truffaut.

Characteristics of cinema Nouvelle vague

Valorization of "author's cinema"

Foram muitas as novelties proposed by essa "nova onda". The artists are interested in making an author's cinema, in which or rotate to the fossem direction, of fact, valued, as well as to atuação.

Foi nesse context that to expressão "cinema da autor"I was raised.

Quebra da narrative linearity

Um two elements that a nouvelle vague subverte é a linearidade. There was no concern of telling the story while respecting the chronological time of two events, in this way it houve a break from the narrative structure.

Once upon a time Jean-Luz Godard declared about isso:

A history must come, a meio and a fim, but not necessarily need to be ordered.

Valorization of external environments

External locations also for many used. In natural light and everyday environments they become valued, different from what was feito até então, where dinners were taxed in studios and in controlled spaces.

The filmmakers wanted to show the pulsating life of the streets, the passers-by and the daily life as a background of the historical proposals.

Everyday themes

The topics addressed traziam common questions, day-to-day difficulties and healthy reflections on life. By default, atuação was very important, being even raised or improvised and spontaneous.

Furthermore, other issues such as love and sexual freedom and non-post-war pacification also appear frequently.

Inovação na maneira de filming

No, what do you say I respect the technical part, nouvelle vague You experimented with other ways of setting up and moving the camera, apart from innovating the setting up of dinners.

Iconic films and filmmakers da Nouvelle vague

La Pointe Courte (1954), by Agnès Varda

This was the first film by the photographer Agnès Varda (1928-2019). Misturando docuário e ficção, a filmmaker ousou in a cheia production of peculiar elements, considered as a precursor of nouvelle vague.

Pointe Courte is the name of a fishermen's village in France and was a local escorted for tax purposes. Agnès, who além de diretora also criou or roteiro do longa, wanted to register or environment, seus personagens real e suas nuances.

A fictitious history of a house also faces part of the plot, creating a film that surpasses the conventional barriers.

Nas claws do vice (1958), by Claude Chabrol

Nas claws do vice (Le beau serge, not original title, which means "O belo Serge") is considered by many as the first film, de facto, do movimento nouvelle vague.

Made by Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), it was a first time director, who added critics of cinema for the magazine Cahiers du Cinema.

A plot tells about a young man who returns to his native city in search of rest, but awaits him as a different reality. A film about the changes that happen to people in our places as time passes.

Harassed (1959) by Jean-Luc Godard

An outstanding film by Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) é Harassed, made in 1959. The director's first film is considered a cinematographic work-first, causing a very surprising number of pages due to its innovation.

A montagem do longa has resources unthinkable for the time, such as cuts and fittings with a purely aesthetic purpose.

Atuação do casal protagonist is also incomum, exhibiting a story that mixes romance and persecution, healthy dialogues and agitation in the streets.

You misunderstood (1959) by François Truffaut

Produção de Estreia by François Truffaut (1932-1984), You misunderstood I also entered for the list of iconic films from nouvelle vague. Recebeu or award of melhor director in Cannes and nomeação à Palma de Ouro.

O enredo addresses the difficult family relationship of an adolescent with his country, showing or ator Jean-Pierre Léaud interpreting, aged 15, a garoto that is expelled from home. See below or trailer do longa.

Religious (1966), by Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette (1928-2016), who also saw me in the magazine Cahiers du Cinema, not so much success as Godard and Truffaut.

One of the six most well-known films is A religious, a romance adapted from Diderot, which does not draw an experimental narrative and breaks tabus da society.

The work caused scandal and was censored in other countries. Years later, the director goes to work on television.

Influence gives Nouvelle wander

TO nouvelle vague It really alludes to structures within the cinematographic universe, tracing a new spirit and creative solutions in the way of telling stories. By default, many audiovisual artists drink from the "nova onda" font.

No Brazil, for example, or movement entitled "Cinema Novo" was quite shocked by both nouvelle vague how much Italian neo-realism hair. We can cite Cacá Diegues and Glauber Rocha as outstanding Brazilian directors dessa vertente.

The US has also great inspiration in the French stream. Filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielrberg and Brian de Palma have seen you as a reference for many films.

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