“Nouvelle Vague” may be French New Wave fan service, which works fine for me because I’m a fan of the French New Wave. If you care about film history, chances are you qualify as well.

France in the 1960s is famous for its symbols of liberation: Bardot, Foucault, student rebellion (“under the pavement, the beach”). Yet nearly half the country lived with the ongoing threat of ...

From the nineteen-fifties through the seventies, short films were a national cottage industry in France. Their production was funded in part by the government’s official film-supporting bodies, both ...