Renaissance of Filmmaking: French New Wave
Maybe the period right after the world war was the most revolutionary period in film history with the Italians having their neo-realism and the French having their new wave. French new wave was set miles apart from the traditional French cinema. It was bold, young, strong, sharp, and innovative and honestly a New Wave in every sense. In the 50’s some French film critics led this informal movement, which would in turn, inspire and change the way the world viewed cinema. It can be called the renaissance of film-making.
The directors of French New Wave were not set into any mould. Each had their own style, specialty and a thirst to make something unique. From the movies made during this era some may be forgotten but many are still viewed and highly recommended. The tides of this new wave reached to shores of all big film industries across the world.
The direction styles were distinctive. The director did not follow a pre-determined script. A lot of work was done impulsively. The locations weren’t artificially created. All real locations were used: the directors believed that it would help maintain the authenticity of the story. The same was the reason to use natural lighting instead of artificial lighting. The sounds in the films were natural and direct unlike the mainstream indirect sounds. All these factors contributed to making French New Wave movies extremely real-like. Not just this, the language was kept colloquial-no heavy dialogues, no larger-than life emotions venting through the words-everything was kept as day-to-day as possible. To add on to this colloquialism the actors were almost always non-professionals, which meant that their body language wouldn’t be conditioned, their expressions would be real and their ordinary appearance would make the characters look authentic. All these factors also resulted in the fact that the director did not need a horde of man force and could work conveniently with a select few people.
The low budgets that these films
The directors of French New Wave were not set into any mould. Each had their own style, specialty and a thirst to make something unique. From the movies made during this era some may be forgotten but many are still viewed and highly recommended. The tides of this new wave reached to shores of all big film industries across the world.
The direction styles were distinctive. The director did not follow a pre-determined script. A lot of work was done impulsively. The locations weren’t artificially created. All real locations were used: the directors believed that it would help maintain the authenticity of the story. The same was the reason to use natural lighting instead of artificial lighting. The sounds in the films were natural and direct unlike the mainstream indirect sounds. All these factors contributed to making French New Wave movies extremely real-like. Not just this, the language was kept colloquial-no heavy dialogues, no larger-than life emotions venting through the words-everything was kept as day-to-day as possible. To add on to this colloquialism the actors were almost always non-professionals, which meant that their body language wouldn’t be conditioned, their expressions would be real and their ordinary appearance would make the characters look authentic. All these factors also resulted in the fact that the director did not need a horde of man force and could work conveniently with a select few people.
The low budgets that these films