French New Wave - Wikipedia
The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism.
saying Godard or Chabrol shared that influence would be a stretch, and absurd in the cases of Rohmer or Resnais...
Well, there is Rossellini. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But Cahiers, like ET, was a platform for criticism, in which multiple inputs brought multiple outputs, modified by the critical process. It had a very important role imo. You can't be me, I'm taken
The realism, reminiscent of Italian Neo-realism and Czech New-wave.
Wikipedia is calling this the "Romanian New Wave." I don't know why every new national film movement has to be called the "new wave" as though the only thing which differentiates them are their countries of origin, or as if film were an implicitly aquatic medium.
