RECEIVED IDEA. It is not because “The Four Hundred Blows” is the standard that the French director is at the origin of this cinematographic current.
By Victoria Gairin
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I’expression “new wave” appears for the first time… under the pen of Françoise Giroud in The Express of October 3, 1957, in a sociological survey of 18-30 year olds titled: “The new wave is coming! In February 1958, it was taken up by the critic and historian Pierre Billard in the magazine Cinema 58.
The band of “Young Turks”, as these cinephiles were then called, ready to knock down “daddy’s cinema” and to unbolt the great formalists of the seventh art, now have their current.
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In 1959, the movie The four hundred Blows by François Truffaut will become their banner. Other directors would become emblematic figures of this current, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
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