Women bridge gender gap as French film embraces a new nouvelle vague

As a festival of Gallic cinema opens in the UK, women both on screen and behind the camera are now in France's cultural vanguard

Half a century has passed since a group of mostly young and almost exclusively male directors electrified the culture-starved, postwar public with what would become known as nouvelle vague films.

Using handheld cameras and with a shortage of both money and celluloid, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette among others created a golden age of French cinema.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/20/french-film-new-wave-women-bridge-gender-gap

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