Happy New Year to all of you my dear friends! It’s great to be here and have you all in my life. I know you are GOOD friends because every time I procrastinate or can’t find time to do what I love so much somebody pokes me “When is the next one coming?” So here it is, the first 2008 Cooking High episode!
Café Au Lait was inspired by La Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave cinema from the 60’s. This hasn't been the first episode inspired by this particular time of our collective past. The 60’s were an era of social and political change that echoed through out every continent. Time that brought counter culture, social revolution, and alternative point of view to the forefront.
The New Wave film directors were part of this phenomenon through their work, making radical experiments with editing, visual style, and narrative. Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais brought international acclaim to this genre. Although never formally organized as a movement they had in common the self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form, deliberately deconstructing the dogmatic ideas of time, space, and reason of the past in search of new prospective and self- expression.
I remember when I first saw Breathless. I must have been about 15 years old. Although on that young age I didn’t understand some of the discrete allusions I was so impressed with its