Introduction
The French New Wave or La Nouvelle Vague is the most influential film movements among the various types of movement in the cinema. The New Wave have affectedly changed filmmaking the entire France by inspiring new styles, themes, and modes of production throughout the world after World War II (Richard, N., 2009). The movement began in late of the 1950s as a key of articulate young film-makers. There are few young film-makers who formed the group, François Truffault, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Romer, and critics the films by the film magazine “Cahiers du Cinéma”. The Cahiers du Cinéma critics were very critical of the film of the times. It’s considered the film to be unoriginal, polished, formulaic and studio-bound French cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The young critics were commended the French film-makers who considered as “auteurs”, such as Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, and also the Hollywood film-makers, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Nicholas Ray, and Howard Hawks (Stephen, N., n.d.).
The French New Wave or La Nouvelle Vague is the most influential film movements among the various types of movement in the cinema. The New Wave have affectedly changed filmmaking the entire France by inspiring new styles, themes, and modes of production throughout the world after World War II (Richard, N., 2009). The movement began in late of the 1950s as a key of articulate young film-makers. There are few young film-makers who formed the group, François Truffault, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Romer, and critics the films by the film magazine “Cahiers du Cinéma”. The Cahiers du Cinéma critics were very critical of the film of the times. It’s considered the film to be unoriginal, polished, formulaic and studio-bound French cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The young critics were commended the French film-makers who considered as “auteurs”, such as Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, and also the Hollywood film-makers, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Nicholas Ray, and Howard Hawks (Stephen, N., n.d.).
The main young film-makers of French New Wave assisted and cooperate with each other to help in the growth of a common and diverse use of form, new cinematic style, using breakthrough techniques, a fresh approach narrative, which was to make their work straightaway identifiable. These directors make their films with their own term. They showed that there were various kinds of stories to tell and diverse ways to tell them. The French New Wave film-makers concentrated on bringing a sense of realism to cinema, instead of focusing on studio sets and screenplays adapted from novels where they thought that was not expressing human life. They have proved that they didn’t need the mainstream studios to produce films (Michelle, S. , 2008).
The French New Wave was influences on the New Hollywood generation of directors, and the influence has continue to the present day in the contemporary independent American cinema have generously used its techniques (Simon, H. , 2008).
The most fundamental and earliest films to the movement which includes Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows, 1959) directed by Francois Truffaut; À Bout De Souffle (Breathless, 1960) directed by Jean-Luc Godard; Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night With Maud, 1969) filmed by Eric Rohmer; Le Boucher (The Butcher, 1970) filmed by Claude Chabrol; Celine & Julie Vont En Bateau (Celine & Julie Go Boating, 1974) directed by Jacques Rivette. There are also other film-makers who were also related with the movement such as Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) directed by Alain Resnais; Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7, 1962) filmed by Agnes Varda; Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler,1955) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and so on (Simon, H. , 2008).
French New Wave directors usually shoot their films with an extremely low budget. Based on the budgetary restriction problem, they had limited equipment available to them and they also had not enough money to employ professional actors and actress. They started to come out a principle of even without employed any professional actors and actress the quality also will not lose to other films. So, they bravely use social actors to bring out a new realism to cinema.
Since the directors had limited equipment available to them, they shot quickly and often shot with hand-held cameras. It is because by using hand-held camera, they could easily move the camera around. Moreover, they often had only one camera available for use, which led to long tracking shots and fluid panning. Many French New Wave films are use long extended shots, which these types of cameras facilitated. The purpose of using tracking shot and panning shot is to follow the character movement to show the audience what director wants audience to see.
Long takes were very common in French New Wave cinema. It uses to play audience’s expectation by giving the audience the impression that anything might happen next with unpredictable elements and sudden shifts in tone. For instance, the character is lack of goal protagonist so he roaming around, suddenly involved in an incident and spent a lot of time talking, drinking coffee or watching movies. The most important featured is it always had opening ending and not tidily wrapped up at the climax in French New Wave cinema. In other words, the narrative structure is unpolished and loosely structured because they were using non-linear narrative. They often use flashback and rapid framing from one shot to another shot.
In cinematography and editing, one of the notable techniques in French New Wave is jump cut to creating an effect of discontinuity. At that time, jump cuts were very jarring to audiences. Jump cuts were used to a smooth flow of images onscreen. For example, if a single long shot wasn’t usable and couldn’t be reshot due to budget issues, the director might turn it into a series of jump cut.
Moreover, the characters were often eccentric or odd, and usually included a focus on young man dealing with personal chaos. The actors were encouraged to improvise their lines, or talk over each other’s lines as would happen in real life and even make changes in the plot. This improvisation film making style is to achieve a natural sense.
French New Wave cinema did not use studios for shooting. To make the film as realistic as possible, the directors were more dedicated in shooting live with natural lightings and sounds. In French New Wave cinema, the lighting is sharp contrast between black and white to replace the studio lighting with the available light and supplemental sources as much as possible. The techniques of sound used in French New Wave cinema, the film makers extensively use of natural sound environment in order to increase the realism of the film. Sometimes, the dialogues of the characters are submerged in the sound.
Last but not least, the authorship theory was used by the directors of French New Wave in the 1960s as justification for their film as an expression of personality as much as a plot. A French New Wave film maker is an author of his film based on his own experience in their films. However, some of the films’ character is not based on director’s experience, but it may have the similarity or director’s shadow in it. Basically, the character is reflecting the director’s personal interest and his point of view on the society.
Influence & Impact OnContemporary Films Or Other Media
Characteristic
French new wave cinema has very strong characteristic. The most obvious innovation characteristics of French New Wave cinema is these young director work on location rather than work in a studio. Though they were deeply influenced by classic Hollywood during that time, but they rebelled against the traditional cinema to shoot for the new realism to cinema. For example, they opposed the previous studio production methods and turned to natural shooting style of presentation by find real locations to form a general clause in downtown Paris.
French new wave cinema has very strong characteristic. The most obvious innovation characteristics of French New Wave cinema is these young director work on location rather than work in a studio. Though they were deeply influenced by classic Hollywood during that time, but they rebelled against the traditional cinema to shoot for the new realism to cinema. For example, they opposed the previous studio production methods and turned to natural shooting style of presentation by find real locations to form a general clause in downtown Paris.
French New Wave directors usually shoot their films with an extremely low budget. Based on the budgetary restriction problem, they had limited equipment available to them and they also had not enough money to employ professional actors and actress. They started to come out a principle of even without employed any professional actors and actress the quality also will not lose to other films. So, they bravely use social actors to bring out a new realism to cinema.
Since the directors had limited equipment available to them, they shot quickly and often shot with hand-held cameras. It is because by using hand-held camera, they could easily move the camera around. Moreover, they often had only one camera available for use, which led to long tracking shots and fluid panning. Many French New Wave films are use long extended shots, which these types of cameras facilitated. The purpose of using tracking shot and panning shot is to follow the character movement to show the audience what director wants audience to see.
Long takes were very common in French New Wave cinema. It uses to play audience’s expectation by giving the audience the impression that anything might happen next with unpredictable elements and sudden shifts in tone. For instance, the character is lack of goal protagonist so he roaming around, suddenly involved in an incident and spent a lot of time talking, drinking coffee or watching movies. The most important featured is it always had opening ending and not tidily wrapped up at the climax in French New Wave cinema. In other words, the narrative structure is unpolished and loosely structured because they were using non-linear narrative. They often use flashback and rapid framing from one shot to another shot.
In cinematography and editing, one of the notable techniques in French New Wave is jump cut to creating an effect of discontinuity. At that time, jump cuts were very jarring to audiences. Jump cuts were used to a smooth flow of images onscreen. For example, if a single long shot wasn’t usable and couldn’t be reshot due to budget issues, the director might turn it into a series of jump cut.
Moreover, the characters were often eccentric or odd, and usually included a focus on young man dealing with personal chaos. The actors were encouraged to improvise their lines, or talk over each other’s lines as would happen in real life and even make changes in the plot. This improvisation film making style is to achieve a natural sense.
French New Wave cinema did not use studios for shooting. To make the film as realistic as possible, the directors were more dedicated in shooting live with natural lightings and sounds. In French New Wave cinema, the lighting is sharp contrast between black and white to replace the studio lighting with the available light and supplemental sources as much as possible. The techniques of sound used in French New Wave cinema, the film makers extensively use of natural sound environment in order to increase the realism of the film. Sometimes, the dialogues of the characters are submerged in the sound.
Last but not least, the authorship theory was used by the directors of French New Wave in the 1960s as justification for their film as an expression of personality as much as a plot. A French New Wave film maker is an author of his film based on his own experience in their films. However, some of the films’ character is not based on director’s experience, but it may have the similarity or director’s shadow in it. Basically, the character is reflecting the director’s personal interest and his point of view on the society.
Influence & Impact OnContemporary Films Or Other Media
The French New Wave was influenced by the classical Hollywood cinema and Italian Neorealism. The well known French New Wave film makers are Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and Louis Malle. They are film critics before they start to shoot their own film. They are upset with the unreal Hollywood films at that time which overflow with uninspired happy go lucky content. Therefore, these young filmmakers start to take revolution to shoot the films that are real and inspire.
French New Wave was popular between the years 1958 and 1964. It carries great impact to the modern cinema. French New Wave has been the reference by many modern filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Altman and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The characteristic of French New Wave was then adapted by the young American filmmakers and create the film movement called the New Hollywood.
Quentin Tarantino was the big fan of French New Wave among the modern filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino has dedicated his first film ‘Reservoir Dog’ to Jean-Luc Godard. He named his production company as A Band Apart that he plays the words of Godard film Bande a part. The dance sequence in the film Pulp Fiction where happens at Jack Rabbit Slim's was intended as a reference to Travolta's star-making performance as Tony Manero in the epochal Saturday Night Fever (1977). However, Tarantino who is the director of Pulp Fiction credits a scene in the Jean-Luc Godard film Bande à part (1964) with the inspiration.
Besides, one of the characteristics of French New Wave is the conversations between the characters are long and they love to inject humour in the conversation. For example, in the film 400 blows, the stepfather of the main character always joked around in the present of the son. While in the film Pulp fiction, both of the robbers were having a long and humorous conversation about the burgers they love.
Meanwhile, the film technique of French New Wave has influence the modern filmmakers to create the scene that similar with. In the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that directed by Michel Gondry has borrowed the filming techniques and scene from Godard’s masterpiece, A bout de soufflé (1960). The kissing scene of two main actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in A bout de soufflé has adapted in the kissing scene of two main actors Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey as well.
Synopsis
Antoine Doinel always got into misunderstanding at home by his parents and his insensitive teacher always picks on him resulting he hates school more than ever. He started to be rebellious by skipping classes, stealing parent’s money, stealing his dad’s company typewriter hiding his dad’s Michelin’s manual and run away from home. He can’t stand the pressure that everyone is accusing him of lying. The boy finally quits school after being accused of plagiarism by his teacher. He steals a typewriter from his father to finance his plans to leave home. The father is frustrated for all problems he is causing turns Antoine over to the police and was sent to the delinquency center. A psychiatrist at a delinquency center probes Antoine's unhappiness, which he reveals in a fragmented series of monologues.
Analysis
The authorship theory that is seen in this film is the authorship of origin. The film is mostly developed based on the director’s, François Truffaut experience and throughout the film Antoine’s attitude and behavior carry the resemblance of the director during his younger times.
The French New Wave is influenced by Film Noir and so we can see the influence of femme fatale in French New Wave’s movies. In the 400 blows the femme fatale is the mother. She is a decisive wife and mother and she always stand to her point. When she was asked by her son for pocket money she did not give any to him but asked her husband to give to him and he did. Another example is when her husband asked her where they should drive in the weekends she rejected by saying she is going to her friends place. She did not change her mind at all. Although she is remarried she did not feel satisfy with her husband and have another affair. She is selfish to think for her own good only. She even sometimes feel ashamed of having a child.
The long tracking shot of Eiffel tower in the beginning is minuscule from the beginning and the shot is tracking in the tower and as the tower is closing up it begin to stray away from the tower and the tower is minimizing again. As the shot approaching the Eiffel tower the music gets very suspenseful and slowly fading away as it is moving away from the tower. The shots were made for us to feel that we are starting to understand the main character but as we are getting nearer to him we were again parting away from him. There will be uncertainties in the film as the opening of the film hinted that long take is a sign of uncertainties.
Most of the scenes are handheld as it offers more flexibility and light in weight. This can be seen in the scene where Antoine is riding in the carnival centrifudge and the point of view is shot by handhelding the camera. During the few minutes ride in the centrifudge he is in dizziness but at the same time he is feeling hyper. The distortion that he is experiencing in the ride seems to be giving him a few minutes of escapism in his life.
Throughout the movie panning and tracking shots are often used as this is one of French New Wave characteristics. The shots are used either to follow the character or to show the relations of the characters. For example after Antoine’s classmate stop by at his house looking for Antoine’s he continue his way to school where the panning shot was seen panning from the direction of Antoine to him across the street showing that Antoine is in deep trouble after the classmate visited his house and his father know about his truant. When Antoine ran away from the rehabilitation centre the camera is tracking him and following him eagerly until he reaches to a destination which is the sea where he couldn’t run anymore.
Discontinuous editing and unconventional continuity is also seen in this film movement. This is a way to show the time interval in the same scene is shortened. At the opening of the film, the camera move in one direction to the Eiffel tower and after several seconds it changes the camera position and it shows obvious jump cuts. When Antoine was having dinner with his parents, the scene started with his father scooping soup for him and few seconds later then the scene shows they already finished their meal and started to clean the table. Another example is when Antoine was sleeping in his bed, his father pass by him and Antoine appear at the left side of the screen, and when his mother came back from outside and walk pass him, Antoine appear at the right side of the screen.
From movie critics to filmmakers their budget is quite limited. In this movie instead of using cranes and cables to achieve a bird eye view and high angle they shoot from tall buildings to achieve the angle they wanted. For example there is one scene where the teacher brings Antoine and his classmates for a jog in town and slowly the students are running away the angle is changed to high angle and bird eyed view to show the group is getting smaller.
The setting of the location is all real locations as influenced by Italian Neo realism. The whole film is shot on location but not in studio. Examples are Antoine’ house, classroom, Paris’s streets, and rehabilitation center and the beach.
The suspenseful music which is heard at the opening of the film tracking the Eiffel tower is also heard again at the end of the film where it follows the footsteps of Antoine is the uncertainties that is now faced by Antoine.
French New Wave is an improvised film making as they do not have any dialogue and script while shooting, the dialogue in the film seems impromptu and unorganized. The casts are given freedom in delivering the dialogues. This can be found in film while Antoine was talking to the psychologist in the rehabilitation center.
Another significant of French New Wave is the ambiguous ending. The ending in the 400 blows ended with the freeze frame of Antoine’s face. The scene carries a meaning as he is running away from the confinement that everyone is forcing him to behave and through his eyes he is yearning for freedom and whatever happens to his freedom is up to our interpretation.
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My understanding towards jump cuts in French new wave cinema is, actually, it’s one of the editing technique and mostly director purposely done it that way. Jump cuts were used as much to cover mistakes on the shot. From your post, there are 2 examples you stated which are clearly explained the shot. Here, please tell and explain what were the mistakes behind in these different shots in the film itself, and so director wanted to make the shot in that way (jump cuts) to cover the mistakes as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteAs we know, jump cut in French new wave is purposely done by director to challenge the traditions of film, which traditional way is usually use continuous editing. So we can't tell where is the mistakes as the purpose of jump cut is not to cover mistakes but is the aesthetics of French new wave. French new wave use jump cut in order to constantly made audience aware that they are watching a film, unlike the Hollywood films which is edited as natural as they can.
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I am very confused as to which movie did you write the synopsis about? You have used quite a few movies as examples in your post, but the one you wrote a synopsis about is not clearly stated.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think you are missing a part of explanation in the third paragraph of your "Influence & Impact OnContemporary Films Or Other Media" part, right after you wrote "While Wes Anderson.....".
Sorry for confusing you, it's our mistake as didn't stated in Synopsis clearly. The movie that we choose is "400 Blows", and this film title did mention in the second paragraph and conclusion in analysis. Please take a look.
DeleteYes, we apologize again as didn't delete this extra three words "While Wes Anderson....." and it confuse you.
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Agree with @film blog that I also really confused to which film actually you are analysis? Besides, I think you should do more comparison with other movie too.
ReplyDeleteSame with what we reply to Film Blog ,sorry for confusing you, it's our mistake as didn't stated in Synopsis clearly. The movie that we choose is "400 Blows", and this film title did mention in the second paragraph and conclusion in analysis. Please take a look.
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I agree with Film Blog, I guess you should try to separate each film that you used as comparison, and try to reorganize it because it's rather confusing. Try to put pictures or video so that it explains your point of view. Good effort.
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Deletei am a bit confuse with your blog as u do not separate the part well. it make me confuse with your synopsis and analysis part. i do not understand which film are you referring to. other than that, you do not clearly state out the director and flim list as well.
ReplyDeleteSorry for confusing you, it's our mistake as didn't stated in Synopsis clearly.
DeleteThe movie that we choose is "400 Blows", and this film title did mention in the second paragraph and conclusion in analysis.
The director of the film is François Truffaut, which did stated in the first paragraph of analysis.Please take a look.
May I know the film list that you refer is? Is the film that we analyze in analysis part? If the answer is yes, we only analyze one film which is "400 Blows".
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Talking about the influence and impact part on contemporary film or other media, I think you shouldn't put too much about the background of the movement and its characteristics. Because we will be include it at other part,right? So, straight to the point and this could make you to include more explanation. As what I know, this movement tend to improvise the scripts, in other words, their dependability on the scripts are high. So, for the part you're saying that French New Wave tend to inject humour in their conversation, is the HUMOUR comes spontaneously from themselves or it is written in script as well? You might want to explain this. Thanks =)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your suggestion, we put a lot of background info and its characteristic is because want to let the reader have enough information about what is French new wave, and when we come into analysis part, reader will tends to have a clear picture and knows what we are talking about.
DeleteYou maybe misunderstood, French new wave have improvised plot & dialogue, which means that the actors do not have any script. So the dialogue and humour joke in the whole film is come spontaneously from actors' their own. That's explain why in the French new wave film, the dialogue of actors seem to be unorganized.
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Yup, according to the notes, this movement indeed has higher dependability on script.
DeleteMay I know what is the note that you refer to? If refer to Mr.Joe's FNW note, the last 2 slide is about this, please take a look, thank you. =)
DeleteIn order to clarified after few debates, i refer to few online resources and I agree with Film Analysis: French New Wave, "actors encouraged to improvise dialogues and talk over each other’s lines to reflect real-life conversations" which means they are non-dependent on the script as stated in Mr Joe slide.=)
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DeleteThe whole statement is very informative, easy to grasp. However, it could be improved with emphasis on mise-en-scene and mise-en-shot from movie such as Breathless. Subsequently, you could insert a picture or two from the movie to further support the explanation of mise-en-scene and mise-en-shot.
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DeleteIntroduction was well explained with in-text citation included. Seperation of your blos will make it easier for the readers. There is room for improvement. keep it up =)
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DeleteI agree with the post of above which is the synopsis and analysis part was confused us.It is because we do not know about the name of movie when reading the synopsis.Therefore, I suggest that when writing the synopsis, you need to mention the name of the movie,otherwise, the reader will confuse about the synopsis and analysis part.Besides that, the characteristic is explain very well, make us clear about the french new wave.
ReplyDeleteSorry for confusing you, it's our mistake as didn't stated in Synopsis clearly.
DeleteThe movie that we choose is "400 Blows", and this film title did mention in the second paragraph and conclusion in analysis.
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For the influences on contemporary film part,
ReplyDeleteIf Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dog was mentioned to have dedicated the work to Godard, then perhaps it would be more convincing to search and use the example from that film and elaborate it out for readers’ better understanding. Also, you could briefly explain the visual of the film movement’s influence, otherwise it is rather difficult for the readers to try associate your explanation to your example scene, especially for those who never watch the film.
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DeleteA suggestion that you may consider to include more explanation for the influences part by giving examples of film's scenes to give a better understanding on how contemporary films is being influenced,overall,this a nice blog to read through=)
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Deletehi there. The explanation on French New Wave unique characteristics are quietly brief. There is no movie or main focus for your point. To be add on, there is no visual aids (both video and image) to support your point. Hope to see your blog to improve. :)
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DeleteSeparating your blog post will be much easier to read. Maybe visuals such as pictures or videos could be included would be an added advantage. Overall, it was a good attempt.
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DeleteIs it possible if the french new wave influence explained together with scenes or attached with a movie clip of the scenes? The explanation on the characteristic is quit good.
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DeleteHi. You might want to consider briefing the readers about the post-war socioeconomic conditions that motivates the development of the movement in your history part. =)
ReplyDeleteCharacteristics of French New Wave are explained but it would be more precise if you could provide specific examples from films and add some visuals for a clearer understanding.
Also, you can talk about the film movement's influence on Dogme 95.
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DeleteThe characteristics of French New Wave is explained in an organized manner. It would be good if there is visual aids to enhance the clarity. Thanks ya :)
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DeleteHi there, the overall information provided in your post is well explained. Examples given in relating to your point also well-elaborated. However, it would be nicer and perfect if you could provide some screen shots for your analysis part. For example, when you are explaining on the discontinuous editing, series of screen shots from the film will greatly support your explanation and give a clearer picture to all. Also, would you consider to provide some examples from films for your characteristic part? It was well explained for each of the characteristic, but providing the examples might make the characteristics more highlighted? Thanks! =)
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DeleteAt first we were confused about the layout of your blog but after you clearly stated about 400 blows it was a lot easier to digest and understand. However you're blog still lacks visual clarity to really grab the attention and make the reading experience less arduous and more enjoyable.
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