I wouldn’t dream of working on something that didn’t make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

La Nouvelle Vague or The French New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm. “New Wave” is an example of European art cinema. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm. Using portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time, the New Wave way of filmmaking presented a documentary type style. The films exhibited direct sounds on film stock that required less light. Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of objective realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end.[x]

So, are you as good in bed as you are on that dance floor? 

“It’s been a long time, but you know, I don’t feel old. I’m 62, everybody knows that, I’ll be 63 in September. There’s nothing you can do about it anyway. But I have lots of fun, and friends. Life has been good to me.” ― in 2003.

Happy 72nd Birthday Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer aka Anna Karina! | 22 September 1940