Louis Malle & the New Wave Film

Malle was associated with the French movement known as the New Wave. Most of the filmmakers of this movement came from the magazine Cahiers du CinTma, but Malle never wrote for the publication. Indeed, the magazine never had a high regard for Malle's works. Still, Malle stood at the center of the New Wave and was important in its subsequent impact on French commercial cinema:

Malle's early fiction films helped launch the ne

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er after Les Amants, and this reputation would follow him as he made other films about sexual subjects, such as Murmur of the Heart (1971). The film is representative of Malle's moral viewpoint in his films: It's only in the last reels that the audience realizes the film maker has been sensitively and discreetly building toward the scene in which the boy has sex with his lifeloving mother. By the time it happens, the event bypasses the audience's judgment. It's no longer a question of "Is this right?" The audience understands it and likes these people (LaSalle). Most critics noted, however, that Malle's film was hardly about incest at all, but instead stood as a witty, wellobserved, affectionate comingofage tale set against the conventions of 1950s middleclass life. Tom Milne wrote, More than anything else, the film reminds one of Truffaut and the joyous spontaneity of Les Quatre Cent Coups . . . Tender and funny rather than daring and provocative, it's a film as gracefully and elegantly teasing as the best of Eric Rohmer (cited at www.cinematheque.bc.ca/previous/malle.html). Michael Sragow in the San Francisco Examiner called the film "Malle's comic masterpiece . . . [He] gives the whole shebang a crackpot symmetr
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