“(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes – The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth”

- Jacques Ellul

French New Extremity, according to James Quandt:
“Bava as much as Bataille, Salo no less than Sade seem the determinants of a cinema suddenly determined to break every taboo, to wade in rivers of viscera and spumes of sperm, to fill each frame with flesh, nubile or gnarled, and subject it to all manner of penetration, mutilation, and defilement”

Filmmakers affiliated with the French New Extremity ‘movement’:

Claire Denis
Bertrand Bonello
Philippe Grandrieux
Olivier Assayas
Vincent Dieutre
Jacques Nolot
Christophe Honoré
Patrice Chereau
Bruno Dumont
Gaspar Noé
Virginie Despentes
Marina de Van
Pascal Laugier
Leos Carax
Catherine Breillat
Jean-Claude Brisseau
C.S. Leigh

Influential filmmakers:

Jean-Luc Godard
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Bertrand Blier
Luis Bunuel
Guy Debord
Fernando Arrabal
Yoshishige ‘Kiju’ Yoshida
Georges Franju
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean Eustache
Alain Resnais
Stan Brakhage
Philippe Garrel
Kenneth Anger
Dario Argento
Maya Dern
Chantal Akerman
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Mario Bava
Shuji Terayama
The Quay Brothers
Nagisa Oshima
Robert Bresson
Jean Rouch
Maurice Pialat
Koji Wakamatsu
Lucio Fulci
Jesus Franco
+ Raul Ruiz’s Dog Dialogue, Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Tsai-Ming Liang’s The River
Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris ,de Oliveira’s The Cannibals and Bergman’s Cries and Whispers

International Filmmakers Associated to the movement:

Michael Haneke
Lukas Moodysson
Lars Von Trier
Kim Ki-Duk
Matthew Barney
Fatih Akin
Patrick Chiha
Park Chan-Wook
Jan Bonny
Yorgos Lanthimos

New French Extremity + Influences