nouvelle vague
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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
It was a gloriously enigmatic line, the sort that might have come from the hero in one of those black and white nouvelle vague films.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2017
In this case, it was mental images of these two great iconic figures of the French nouvelle vague as the younger, more vigorous and physically beautiful figures they once were.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2012
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
