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1. French New Wave

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   The Left Bank (Rive Gauche)
   While often grouped with the Nouvelle Vague due to thematic overlap and timing, the Left Bank directors (including Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, and Chris Marker) often approached cinematic experimentation from a more established background in documentary or literature. Their work tended to be less focused on the auteur theory in its purest form and more concerned with macro-political themes, memory, and the structure of history [4]. For instance, Resnais famously experimented with the mathematical relationship between the l…