School of Style

Through my own affinity for all things French, I’ve developed a cult-like devotion for cinema coming out of the world of 75001. The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket coin by critics for a group of French Filmmakers of the late 1950’s and 1960’s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism and Classical Hollywood Cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the new wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style, and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.

The most prominent and pioneering among the group includes François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Agnes Varda who was part of the Rive Gauche Movement, Paint such poignently praised films that paint the world of Paris France as beautiful and whimsical. As an escape even before I had chose to live in the land of Smelly Cheese, Annoying Coin Currency, Gypsy’s, Small Food Portions, and Handsome Mean; watching films such as 400 Blows, Breathless, Pierrot le Fou, Masculin Feminin, A Woman is A Woman, Band of Outsiders , Cléo de 5 a 7, and Qui est -vous Polly Magoo opened me to a world of brilliance changing me and my view of fashion. Along with the epic wardrobe, make-up, and french super stars, you will fall in love with the likes of Godard’s muses, Anna Karina, Jean Seberg, Brigitte Bardot, and Jean -Paul Belmondo.

If you haven’t somehow been exposed to La Nouvelle Vague, check into these directors and their films, add them to your Netflix. Join the obsession :)

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