The Recap - Volume 5

INTRODUCTION

In the late 1950s, a few filmmakers in Paris made a departure from the traditional way of making films by adopting pathbreaking approaches to editing, visual style, narrative, and engagement with socio-political themes. This evolution in storytelling has come to be known as the 'French New Wave Cinema' and is considered to be one of the most significant film movements in the history of motion pictures.¹ French film director Jean-Luc Godard was a pioneer of this movement and one of his famous quotes not only encapsulates his approach to filmmaking but also highlights the freshness that the French New Wave Cinema brought to world cinema: "a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."