Kathmandu, Feb. 2 -- In the late 1950s, there emerged a new style of filmmaking in France, pioneered by filmmakers such as Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. The filmmakers were former film critics for the magazine Cahiers du cinema, dissatisfied with the traditional style of filmmaking that was then in practice in the country. When they set out to make films themselves, they flouted traditional norms, pioneering something truly unique, driven by new narrative techniques and editing tics. This new style, called La Nouvelle Vague or New Wave, was almost documentary-like, in that it felt all too real and close to life. This movement is often called the most important film movement in the history of cinema.

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