Word: truffauts
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From the shot of Paris. Truffaut cuts to lead actor Jean-Picrre Leaud (Godard's Mascudin-Feminin. La Chinoise Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows, Skolimowski's Le Depart) reading Balzac. The use of books is a Novell Vague device which reveals Truffaut's Hundred Blows when twelve-year old Leaud kept a bust of Balzae in his room...
...Both Truffaut and Balzac often use Paris as their setting and romanticize urban life. Both have broad visions of radically different assortments of people. Both perceive the absurdity and ?pettiness, but above all the glory of la comedic humaine. They each indulge in totally irrelevant detail, which produces an overall effect of realism. Both have a taste for the melodramatic and both believe that improbable chance plays a large role in the lives of real people...
...TRUFFAUT has no urge to make any political or social commentary about the individual vs, society in urban life. His camera is rather a detached but passionate observer of society. The lightness of his treatment provides an underlying optimism in his attitude towards society...
...introduction of all different kinds of really weird people-a magician a violent fag the staff of a private detective agency-affirms Truffaut's positive belief in the uniqueness of every human individual. Institutions-such as the institution for juvenile delinquency in The Four Hundred Blows the System in Fahren?eit 451 and the army in stolen Kisses -which suppress this uniqueness are Truffaut's real enemies...
...Truffaut goes out of his way of avoid any kind of tight dramatic construction. Many incidents-such as Antoine's chance meetings on the street with old friends -have no apparent purpose and bear no particular relation to any other part of the film, but are incredibly life-like because of their irrelevance. This looseness of construction is another distinct feature of the Nouvelle Vague. The unimportance of a plot as such allows the director to explore people's relations and the development of their character without having to worry about logical dramatic sequence. It is the experimental reinterpretation...