The artistic ideas, representative figures and main works of the French New Wave film movement.

The "New Wave" pursues getting closer to life and going deeper into reality; while the "Left Bank" movies are interested in people's spiritual activities, people's thoughts, and people's hearts. In their view, The life a person creates in his mind is far richer than life itself. They move closer to the inner life and go deeper into a new reality.

Claude Chabrol's "Cousins". and "Beautiful Serge" were the earliest works of the New Wave, followed closely by Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" and Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima Mon Amour". Later, in 1960 and beyond, there were other works - Luc Godard's "Exhaustion", Eric Rommel's "Leo", and finally Jacques Rivette's "Paris Belongs to Us"

"New Wave". The style of the author's films mostly records or expresses an event or a few characters in a focused way. The films are produced at a low cost: non-professional actors are used; they are shot in real locations instead of a studio; the film does not pursue exciting scenes and dramatic conflicts. In terms of methods, long shots, mobile photography, voice-overs, inner monologues, and natural sounds that can express people's subjective feelings and mental states are widely used. They even use unconventional shaking shots and "jump cuts" and "jump cuts" that break the unity of time and space. ", etc. We also use some "documentary" techniques such as follow-up shooting with light cameras, snap shots, telephoto, zoom, freeze frame, continuation, and simultaneous recording to combine "subjective realism" with "objective realism". Combination. The film has a strong personal biography.