{"id":3490,"date":"2020-09-30T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T22:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:04:34","slug":"a-newcomers-guide-to-la-nouvelle-vague-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/a-newcomers-guide-to-la-nouvelle-vague-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Newcomer&#8217;s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague: Issue #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Welcome to issue number two on our journey into La Nouvelle Vague! This issue will focus on four more exciting French New Wave films&#8211;two more from Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut, one from Jean-Luc Godard, and the final from Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0In <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=3459&amp;preview=true\">Tirez Sur le Pianist<\/a>, <\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">or<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Shoot The Piano Player<\/span><\/em> (1960), <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Truffaut applies a new technique of inner dialogue into the story and shows how the smallest choices can have the biggest impacts. Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment&#8217;s stylish crime thriller <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=3467&amp;preview=true\">Plein Soleil<\/a>, <\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">or<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Purple Noon<\/span><\/em> (1960) <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">is a rollercoaster from start to finish and stars Alain Delon, a prominent sex symbol in the 1960&#8217;s. With his chiseled features and bright blue eyes, Delon makes it impossible to look away. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/antoine-et-colet\u2026oine-and-colette\/\">Antoine et Colette<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">directed by Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut in 1962, is a short story that&#8217;s part of the series <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Adventures of Antoine Doinel\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and is the second film following <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 400 Blows,<\/span><\/em> which I covered in my <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/la-nouvelle-vague\/\">first issue<\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. <\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Finally, Godard&#8217;s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=2859&amp;preview=true\">Masculin F\u00e9minin<\/a> <\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">(1<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">966) follows the everyday lives of a few teenagers in the Marx and Coca Cola generation. <em>Masculin F\u00e9minin<\/em> is so good that it&#8217;s why i always joke that there is a reason there is &#8216;God&#8217; in &#8220;Godard&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">All four films go in their own stylistic direction and showcase different unique characters and their distinct lives. Even after sixty years, the messages in the films are timeless. I really enjoy <em>Antoine and Colett<\/em>e and <em>Masculin F\u00e9minin<\/em> myself, and i hope you will all get the chance to watch both (and all) of them sometime soon!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to issue number two on our journey into La Nouvelle Vague! This issue will be focusing on four more exciting French New Wave films! We will be looking at two more Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut films, a Jean-Luc Godard film and a thriller film by a director we haven&#8217;t met yet \u2013 Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[175,258,229,230,232,218],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-left","tag-masculin-feminin","tag-mina-tham","tag-purple-noon","tag-shoot-the-piano-player","tag-the-adventures-of-antoine-doinel","tag-the-french-new-wave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/38105.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}