La Nouvelle Vague and Us

If you are a film buff or if you haven't yet seen any films by Jean-Luc Godard and you are a bit of a Francophile (food, chateaux, cathedrals, and yes the people, etc.), you will want to try to catch the last 10 days of the Godard retrospective at one of the Lincoln Center Film Society theaters. Says Godard, "There is no point in having sharp images when you have fuzzy ideas." How true.

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Today, I still ask Rory, aren't there any nice French films around? and he usually says no. The days when a new Truffaut, Godard, or Chabrol appeared as if by magic are gone. As are my other favorites, the great Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) and Philippe de Broca (Man From Rio).

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But here we are with one of the original founders of the French New Wave cinema (the eponymous Nouvelle Vague of the title), who is still alive by the way, right in our backyard. I almost missed it but fortunately, thanks to the kindness of our children, we are the proud possessors of a membership to the Lincoln Center Film Society and often check their website.

 

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You really have to be on your toes not to miss this stuff. Or as Alice said in Through the Looking Glass, "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

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Good news--there is a senior price--$7/pp--for these great films. If you still haven't seen Vivre Sa Vie or Two or Three Things I know About Her or the film called La Nouvelle Vague, this is your chance but move fast--these great moments in New York life don't last forever.

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