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nouvelle vague

[noo-vel vag] / nu vɛl ˈvag /
NOUN
new wave
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The film was based on an idea by François Truffaut, another icon of the nouvelle vague, and began shooting in Paris without a script.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2021

It’s extremely poetic and introspective, almost like a Japanese nouvelle vague from the ’80s.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2020

All the nouvelle vague guys blew your mind.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2018

The double bill was an immersion in the black-and-white, Gauloise-enriched universe of nouvelle vague Paris, and exiting the theater onto Bleecker Street became a disorienting extension of the movies, a demonstration of the medium’s power.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2016

Indians incorporated the new pigments into their traditions, expanding them and in the process creating an aesthetic nouvelle vague.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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