When I started French classes 8 years ago, I remember the triumphant feeling of coming home learning how to say a complex word the proper french way. One day, I decided to watch French movies to get some more practice with my pronunciation and oral skills. I was lucky to find a film by Jean-Luc Godard in YouTube. Suddenly, the website was proposing me to watch movies with a similar style. And I fell in love with the French New Wave movement – to the point where I was watching 2 per day! I was in love with the visual aesthetic, the ambiguous and imaginary adventures, but mostly the long beautiful conversations (and silences) about life and love.
Why is the 60’s and 70’s style so iconic?
I LOVE those decades. I do. At least the idea that I have of those decades, since I wasn’t alive at that time. I think it has been an incredible time for human rights, freedom of speech, women empowerment, LGBT social movements, sex revolution.