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How is this movie considered as revival of New Wave Cinema?

posted 11 years ago by afutoran
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The only New Wavish element was that it was shot in black and white. I found this Baumbach's worst film, far worse than Margot at the Wedding which ironically he cowrote with his then wife Jennifer Jason Leigh. Not a good idea to cowrite with his lovers! I've never found Grega Gerwig pretty or a great actress and only liked her in the Duplass Brothers film Baghead which she was funny in. I don't get the appeal of her at all. Not a hater, but definitely did not enjoy this film, care about any characters and there is no artistic Merritt to call it New Wave influenced. Just shallow dialog and a no message. Doesn't have to be a traditional structured plot but it needed a story that meant something or at least entertaining.

[–] pravindaswani74 10 years ago

Its is...stfu

[–] cryconscry 10 years ago

The only people that would consider this a revival of New Wave are those who only have a sliver of surface level knowledge of what New Wave was about. This isn't even close and comparing it to NW insults NW in more ways than I can count.

[–] thomaselley 9 years ago

Revival might be a strong word to use, but Frances Ha certainly uses several of the techniques that made this exact french wave "new". Many of which has been mentioned above - I would like to add the use of jump cuts to fast forward plot or to show time.

Bearing in mind your way below the surface knowledge of the French New Wave cinema, what movies do you consider to revive this period?

[–] cryconscry 9 years ago

The most well known would be the films of Tarantino, Scorsese, and Coppola, with Soderberg and Gondry being some lesser known examples.

[–] noveltylibrary65 (200) 4 years ago

I'm thinking it's more like No Wave.