'New Wave' Spirits and Romantic Urban Fantasy: Lovers on the Bridge

摘要

During the 1950s and 1960s, the French New Wave film movement swept the film-dom around the globe and ushered in a trend of iconoclasm and aesthetic experimentation. This paper analyzes the signature art-house film Lovers on the Bridge (1999) made by Leos Carax who is credited as the torchbearer for the French New Wave cinema, in relation to another stylistic film Fallen Angels (1995) made by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. Inspired by new wave spirits, both two films create an enchanted, romantic vision of the urban living, through the subject of youthful romance, highly aestheticized and personalized film language.