A Newcomer’s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague: Issue #4

A Newcomer’s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague: Issue #4

Issue number four of A Newcomer’s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague is here! In this issue, we begin with Agnes Varda’s 1965 Le Bonheur/Happiness, which explores the dark underbelly of the image of happiness. Next, the 1966 Un Homme et Une Femme/A Man and a Woman,...
Une étudiante d’aujourd’ hui / A Modern Coed

Une étudiante d’aujourd’ hui / A Modern Coed

I am fascinated by the 1950-60’s culture — everything about it, from the way they dressed, the hairstyles, the dancing, even their furniture. Compared to the sweatpants and hoodies commonly worn today among college students, French college students carried...
Le Bonheur/Happiness

Le Bonheur/Happiness

Fortunately I have never had anybody cheat on me in a relationship, and I have never cheated, but my personal mentality about cheating goes like this: just don’t do it. On the contrary, Agnes Varda’s 1965 film, Le Bonheur or Happiness, centers around François...
Une Homme et une Femme/A Man and a Woman

Une Homme et une Femme/A Man and a Woman

Love is complicated and takes many forms; the love you feel for your parents, your friends, and your significant other are all different but still considered love. What would happen if the love you felt for somebody was still there, but the person was gone? The 1966...
Black Girl

Black Girl

One of my favorite films used to be The Help (2011), directed by Tate Taylor, but now I know that this film is considered a ‘white-savior’ film, and that’s changed my mind completely. A ‘white-savior’ in film is when a white person “saves” people of color...