Visual Form In the Films Of the French New Wave Plasticity of the frame-plasticity of the plot
The ﬁlm aesthetics of the French cinema directors Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Rivette, Eric Rohmer, Francois Truaut, etc. is discussed in the article. The author pays special attention to the inﬂuence of the Cinematheque and of the circle of the magazine “Cahiers du cinéma” on the formation of the New wave artistic taste, the addiction to visual quoting and attraction to visual naturalism. The atmosphere of aesthetic revolution and the ﬁlming technique are described, the speciﬁcity of language and vision of the world is analyzed. The article deals with the role of interview elements in the artistic matter of the ﬁlm and the commitment to the open ﬁnals, the impossibility to create a traditional story and to make a generalization because of the incompleteness of the life process. The method of the New wave directing resembles a collage in cases where “clipping” (découpage) actually embedded in the ﬁlm aesthetics. But other decisions are more frequent: life imperceptibly, as if bypassing the director, sneaks into his mise en scene. Then two realities merge into the indivisible integrity-spontaneous, born out of directorial will, and reality of individual creativity