The French New Wave(week 5)

What is meaning of "The French New Wave"?

With an emphasis on invigorating cinematic narrative, French New Wave Cinema rejected traditional linear tropes of storytelling and created a new language of film.

The feature of The French New Wave

The movies featured unprecedented methods of expression
Also, these movies featured existential themes
Tight budget 

About Wong Kar-wai

He is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker. His movie always about romantic. he shows  unique visual, highly stylized, emotional in his film. His famous movie including Chungking Express, Fallen Angle, 2046, In the Mood for Love and so on. 

The relationship between Wong Kar-wai and The french Wave

Wong Kar-wai was affect by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais,  Eric Rohmer and Akira Kurosawa which all are the stand for The French Wave.
some people say that  Wong Kar-wai is the successor of Jean-Luc Godard. because both of them like wearing sun glasses. and they don't have a script when they are shooting. they like use editing to explain the story. and people always compare  their film together.

Alain Resnais has a movie <Last Year in Marienbad>. it use X, M, X to stead of characters's name. Wong Kar-wai's movie <Fallen Angle> also use this way. and some shots in Alain Resnais's movie<Les heroes folles> also familiar with Wong Kar-wai's movie<Chungking Express>

Wong Kar-wai is a fun of Eric Rohmer

About Chungking Express

     

this film separate by two stories which all written and directed by Wong Kar-wai

storyline:

The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop who is obsessed with the break-up of his relationship with a woman named May and his platonic encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler (Brigitte Lin). The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer who is roused from his gloom over the loss of his flight attendant girlfriend (Valerie Chow) by the attentions of a quirky snack bar worker (Faye Wong). (link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Express)

about shots angle:

 it is use very different angle to explain the story such as long tracking shots to fellow characters and explore the character's inward world.

my comment 

i still remember the first story there is a angle is that the actress is running and camera  hold camera running fellow her. through this angle i even cannot see anything, but i can feel the upset atmosphere. these shooting technology they use can catch  audiences's eyeball and make them focus o