Encounter 2 - The Vague arrives

Demolishing old stereotypes, immersing oneself in reality, searching for new stories and new performers. The Nouvelle vague is a generational movement that has its foundations in the 1950s. Brigitte Bardot's erotic explosion, the urban setting, sentimental confusion, as well as technological changes and the new way of producing films, are all phenomena that anticipate the Nouvelle vague. At the end of the decade, this ‘wave’ found in Louis Malle (and his film Elevator to the Gallows) one of its precursors.