made fifty years ago, young friends from the French film critics' circle of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema "on the way to reinvent the French film and cinema at all new: Nouvelle Vague . Not the big world politics was her theme, but the "Politique des Auteurs". They appreciate the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks in Hollywood and the films of Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson in France, because they saw in them the stamp of their directors.
We recognize in the first films of young film critics and the signature of their authors. And not only the actors in scene, but also themselves and what is in this self-staging their handwriting? That's right, they cling to their cigars, cigarettes and pipes!
Jean-Luc Godard was one of their leaders. And it was during the 60s and the filmmakers of the political movement. The Nouvelle Vague itself was launched in 1968 to a social and political change, whose effects are still felt. is released as the founder of the Cinémathèque Française, go young filmmakers and their supporters to the streets to demonstrate for Henri Langlois. Hence the development of student unrest of May 1968 in Paris.
François Truffaut , the man who loved women and the cinema and us many beautiful cinema hours has given, during the filming of his first feature film "Les 400 Coups" along with his young protagonist, Jean- Pierre Léaud.
François Truffaut in his fifty-hour interview with Alfred Hitchcock, the book led to the famous movie "Mr.Hitchcock how did you do that?".
Claude Chabrol sparked with his first film "Le Beau Serge" in 1959 from the new wave. In his many titles-counting work Chabrol is always the decadent bourgeoisie only.
Claude Chabrol is a great connoisseur. The cigar accompanied him throughout his life.
A Rohmer classic "La Collectionneuse" with Haydée Politoff. She collects men like other Rohmer films.
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