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Critical viewing of French New Wave movies by Samangie Wettimuny A seminar on the French New Wave cinema conducted by The Cultural Section of the Embassy of France in association with Sri Lanka Television Training Centre (SLTTI) is now going on (May 2 to May 8)at SLTTI. All the major works of the French New Wave are shown and discussed here. Screening is preceded by a brief introduction to the film by veteran film Director Tissa Abesekara (He is also the Director of SLTTI) and the Cultural Consultant of the French Embassy in Sri Lanka and Maldives, Yves-Alain Corporeau. The discussion after the screening is a fine opportunity to the enthusiastic audience to discuss in detail the aspects of that particular film.. The selected films are Jean Luc Godard's Breathless (Bout de Souffle), Fran‡ois Truffaud's Four hundred Blows (Les quatre cents Coups), Louis Malle's Lift to Scaffold (L'Ascenseur pour l'echafaudage), Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, Rojer Vadim's' Et Dieu Cr‚a la Femme, Agnes Varda's Cleo from Five to Seven and Claude Chabrol's Le beauserge. A new generation of young film makers emerged in France somewhere between 1955 and 1959 inspired particularly by the radical French magazine Cahier du cin‚ma edited by Andr‚ Bazin. Among them Alain Resnais, Claude Charbrol, Louis Malle, Fran‡ois Truffaud, Jean-Luc Godard are the most outstanding. Francois Truffaud's award winning Les Quatre Cents Coups (Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival in 1959) was the first film to bring international fame to the French New Wave. Though several years have passed since its release the film is still considered as one of the most beautiful films ever made in world cinema. Breathless finely represents the nature of the French New Wave and its attitudes. 'This period which is just after the second World War is quite important in New cinema'said Mr. Yves-Alain Corporeau.'Actually the seminar is a training session for young film makers' he further said explaining the objective of the program. |
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