CINE 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cahiers Du Cinéma, Les Bonnes Femmes, Hiroshima Mon Amour
19 Mar 2019
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Cine 202 notes week 2: french new wave. The postwar french situation: henri langlois and the cin math que fran aise, during the world war ii, germany came to control france. Many films were destroyed for both political and financial reasons (the film stock could be melted down for various purposes, including to make boot soles) ), and urged france to renew its own cinema, which results in the french. Innovation / consistency: the stamp of the director, despite obstacles, away from literary models, toward writing in images. Some representative films/filmmakers of the french new wave: The 400 blows, jules et jim (fran ois truffaut, 1959 and 1962) Lola and les parapluies de cherbourg (jacques demy, 1961 and 1964) Innovation often centers on language/dialogue: historical moment: post-war, pre-mai 1968, the loss to film history of the 1950s in france: not completely, but they are overshadowed by the new wave, max ophuls. Jacques becker: ren clement and claude autant-lara.
