What is most interesting about the New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) in France is its quick transformation from the creation of low-budget films by young directors to the mainstream approach to filmmaking during the 1950s-1960s. The secret of popularity of these films directed by François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jacques Rivette among others can be in their subjective reflection of objective reality through the eyes of young people. The needs of the young audience during the post-war period changed significantly, and it was necessary to speak to viewers while using the language of cinema that was close to them. Traditional means and approaches could not provide a required result anymore, and the young audience needed to be understood and even portrayed in films.
Therefore, the approach to creating personal films that were not related to political topics was quickly adopted by a group of beginning filmmakers. Their interpretation of film specifics like narration, a documentary style, shots, and editing became reproduced by their followers, and this tendency made the New Wave films develop in the context of a new art movement. It is possible to assume that this simplicity in film creation, but still an attempt to represent characters’ personal concerns and feelings, attracted the public. As a result, this cost-saving but effective approach was later used by other directors, and the rejection of old-style methods of filmmaking became a new tradition. From this perspective, it is possible to state that, when the audience can find and identify oneself in films, they become extremely popular and receive many gains. These factors can make other film directors shift to an innovative approach to producing films.