The New Wave, or Nouvelle Vague (French cinema style), refers to a cinema movement of a group of highly individualistic French film directors during the 1950-1970s. Among these famous directors, the most notable examples are François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard, most of whom were associated with the magazine Cahiers du cinéma, a film critic magazine that popularized the auteur theory in the 1950s. This theory held that directors are the authors of their films.
The French New Wave films are characterized by a dominance of individualistic techniques that overshadow their subject matter of the films.
The French New Wave films are characterized by a dominance of individualistic techniques that overshadow their subject matter of the films.
