In-Depth: Legacies of the New Wave
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1 min readAug 8, 2015
A student analysis of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s “Diva” (1981) and Wong Kar-wai’s “Chungking Express” (1994) from a Formalist Film Theory approach.
Jedd M. provides a steller formalist reading of two unique filmic descendents of the French New Wave. How do these two moments in film history (Beineix’s Cinéma du Look and Kar-wai’s Second Hong KongFo Wave) connect back to and diverge from their roots in the cinematic experiments of the 1960s? Watch and find out.