nouvelle vague
/nuːˌvelˈvɑːg, 〈法〉 nʊvɛl vag/noun
mass noun
- a grouping of French film directors in the late 1950s and 1960s who reacted against established French cinema and sought to make more individualistic and stylistically innovative films. Exponents included Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, and François Truffaut.新浪潮派（20世纪50年代末至60年代由一批法国电影导演掀起的反对传统电影的运动, 力图探索个性化和风格创新的影片, 代表人包括克洛德·沙布罗尔、让-吕克·戈达尔、阿兰·雷奈和弗朗索瓦·特鲁凡特）。
词源
French， literally 'new wave'.