A Study Of The Aesthetics Of The New Wave Film In France

The French New Wave film movement is of great significance to the history of world film art.It changed people’s traditional view on film,and refomred traditional aesthetic thoughts and artistic techniques of film,which made an important contribution to the development of film art.After the Avsant-garde film movement,the New Wave film movement rised as another reform of film art.It led film art into a bran-new era.Ray’s "Hiroshima Love" and Truffaut’s "Four HundredBeats" ets.are the masterpieces during that period.Starting from human nature,these typical works outlined people’s inner loneliness and the conflict between people and their surroundings,whose main ideas could be roughly described as unintelligibility and absurdity.Strict Realism and existentialism laid the theoretical foundation of the New Wave film.The New Wave film catalyzed subjective realism,and further enriched expressive means of film.Leaders in the New Wave film movement fought against the obsolete regime overweighted on so-called qualifications,and gradually formulated the theory of "author film ",announcing that for film,the most important is to let them become film creators,and film production and shooting is nothing but the process to achieve this.Image language evolved continuously during the movement,long shot as a photography method was an extraordinarily admired and jump cut as an editing skill was commonly used in that period.The innovation of photography and editing techniques in the New Wave film brought out a totally different visual experience for audience,compared with the past film.French New Wave film had a profound effect on the fifth generation of Chinese film directors.To study the aesthetics of French New Wave film from the contemporary perspective,can provide theoretical supports and artistic lessons for the film creation of our country.