French New Wave

French New Wave was one of the most influential movements for the film industry ever. It lasted from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The French New Wave style was presented in a more documentary fashion and the techniques included long tracking shots, mise-en-scene, fast scene changes (aka jump cuts) and improvised dialogue as well as unorthodox methods of filming like breaking the 180 rule. Whereas a lot of Classic French cinema employed a strong narrative, French New Wave films went so far as to abandon that philosophy, instead reminding it's audience of the fact that cinema is just a sequence of moving images.