French New Wave

 french new wave is one of the most influential styles of film. The term was first used by a group of French film critics  in the late 1950s and 1960s. The disdain for the traditional films, which dominated French film industry at the time, was what drove the young film makers at the time. The New Wave filmmakers were driven by the rejection of their works being made, their spirit of iconoclasm, and the desire to shoot more current social issues at the spot. Many also dealt with the social and political issues of the era in their work, making their experiments with editing, visual style, and narrative part of the break of the conservative mold for most films of the time. With the equipment they used it required little to no set up time because most of it was portable. It was presented as documentary type of style. Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of objective realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created an ambiguous sense that questions that come up in a film are not answered in the end.