It's more than 20 years since a group of young Parisian cinéastes discovered the critical rhetoric, quirky editing techniques and location shooting that came to characterise The New Wave.
How do these films stand up today? What do the directors and actors of The New Wave think of it now? And what has been its durable legacy? The novelist and film historian John Ba ter presents an assessment of the movement.
Contributors: JEANNE MOREAU , LOUIS MALLE ,
MICHEL CIMENT , JEAN-LUC GODARD , CLAUDE CHABROL , ERIC ROIIMER , JEAN ROUCH , BKRTRAND TAVERNIER. Producer DAVID PERRY