4 GREAT NEW WAVES

Freshness, vitality, sweeping away old unwanted stuffy traditions..

Here i’m gonna take the essentials from some countries that really made their mark in the 60s. While epitomising light spontaneity and a certain joie-de-vivre, the French had their intellectual left bank too. Agnes Varda’s La Pointe Courte (1956) places her as the mother (not grandmother!) of the Nouvelle Vague, though some have laid claims for Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge.

More narrative-driven, in Czechoslovakia the 60s and “Prague Spring” had a...