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French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 3 French New Wave CHRIS WIEGAND POCKET ESSENTIALS French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 2 French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 1 French New Wave www.pocketessentials.com French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 4 This edition published in 2012 by Pocket Essentials, an imprint of Oldcastle Books Ltd, P.O.Box 394, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 1XJ www.pocketessentials.com © Chris Wiegand 2005, 2012 The right of Chris Wiegand to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of the publishers. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-84243-946-3 (print) 978-1-84243-934-0 (epub) 978-1-84243-935-7 (kindle) 978-1-84243-936-4 (pdf) 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Typeset in 9pt Univers Light with Myriad Pro display by Avocet Typeset, Chilton, Aylesbury, Bucks Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 5 Acknowledgements Thanks to Paul Duncan for providing unlimited editorial guidance and enthusiasm. Further assistance came from Shannon Attaway, Mylene Bradfield, Louise Cooper, Julia Dance, Lisa DeBell, Alexis Durrant, Lizzie Frith, Maria Kilcoyne, Steve Lewis, Wade Major, Ion Mills, Luke Morris, Gary Naseby, Matt Price, Jill Reading, Jessica Simon, James Spackman and Claire Watts. Merci à tous! 5 French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 6 French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 7 Contents 1. Making Waves: An Introduction 9 2. Birth of the Cool 27 3. Cannes ’59 47 4. Guns, Girls and Gauloises 55 5. Les Femmes 65 6. And Godard Created Karina, then Recreated Bardot 77 7. Songs, Thrills and a Town Called Alphaville 91 8. Further Viewing 103 9. Further Reading 131 Index 137 7 French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 8 French New Wave:Ad man Master 10/10/12 13:21 Page 9 1. Making Waves: An Introduction Beautiful women. Suave leading men. Existential angst. Black and white figures in Parisian cafés. Cigarette smoke. Lots of it. The world of French cinema conjures up a hundred often- parodied clichés for today’s viewer and the films of the New Wave era supply their own set of distinctive images. Jean Seberg walking down the Champs Elysées selling theNew York Herald Tribune. The young Jean-Pierre Léaud running through the streets of Paris with a stolen typewriter. Charles Aznavour playing honky-tonk piano in a run-down café. Anna Karina and Jean-Claude Brialy brushing off their feet before going to sleep. Eddie Constantine, decked out in gumshoe hat and mac, arriving at the sinister town of Alphaville. Jean-Paul Belmondo wrapping dynamite around his painted face. Brigitte Bardot lying naked in a bedroom asking Michel Piccoli what he thinks of her rear. Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner and Henri Serre cycling through the countryside. The list is endless. These images are some of the things that the New Wave means to me, yet decades after the term ‘Nouvelle Vague’ was coined in L’Expressmagazine, critics continue to argue over its precise meaning. Some confine the New Wave to a certain period of time, others to particular directors. Many believe that the filmmakers who wrote for the influential journal Cahiers du Cinémaare the only ones we can truly describe as belonging to the New Wave. Among the directors believed at one time or another to be related to the movement are: Jean-Luc Godard, 9
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