French New Wave Memes

poor Michael Madsen

Claire's Knee (1970) dir: Eric Rohmer Jerome driving a boat, looking over his shoulder saying come to my house. I have great books.

ultimate pick up line

One of the interesting unintended side effects of the current moment is us all falling collectively in love with Minnesota.

Claire's Knee (1970) dir: Eric Rohmer Jerome driving a boat, looking over his shoulder saying come to my house. I have great books.

ultimate pick up line

La Collectionneuse (1967) dir: Eric Rohmer Haydée Politoff lounging on on a couch saying "I'm fed up with artificial abnormals"

same, sister
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Anna Karina in close up saying either this life is nothing or it must be everything

'Made In USA' (1966)
dir: Jean-Luc Godard 📽️

'Winter LIght' (1963) dir: Ingmar Bergman a man's clenched fists in close up captioned God, why have you created me so eternally dissatisfied?

just asking questions
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'Hour of the Wolf' dir: Ingmar Bergman Max von Sydow looking pensive subtitled is this how it is? does it have to be like this?

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'Suspiria' (1977) dir. Dario Argento a woman sitting up in bed writing in a notebook looking perturbed

when your phone is charging but you think of a good post 📽️

Anna Karina in a blue gray sweater and maroon tights blowing a big cloud of cigarette smoke

silently judging your posts

'La Chinoise' (1967) dir: Jean Luc Godard 📽️ new year resolutions: read more, buy more vintage

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Bande à part (1964) dir: jean luc godard couple driving in a convertible man: what's up? woman: I'm disgusted with life.

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Hence some of the pitfalls of writing on the Internet, highly visible in e-mail, blogs, and responses to blogs. The mechanical ease and immediacy of electronic communication are deceptive. People write hurriedly, don't reread what they wrote, misread and are misread, get into quarrels, hurl insults, and use flame-throwers because they expect their writing to be understood as if they were talking. It's childish to assume people will understand unexpressed meanings. It's dangerous to confuse self-expression with communication.

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

Jean-Luc Godard arrested while filming the riots in Paris, May, 1968

French riot cops in 1968 look like Ishirō Honda villains
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Jean-Luc Godard lighting Anna Karina's cigarette

me & who

mood

The Inheritance (1962) dir: Masaki Kobayashi a man an a woman are seated facing one another, the man is saying I'd like to build even the smallest emotional bond with you.

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i laugh involuntarily every time I see that one

'The City of the Dead' (1960) B&W still of a man talking on a telephone Sam: Yes I am alone, except for the devils in my brain

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'Les Biches' (1968) dir: Claude Chabrol. a woman in a bubble bath holding a cup and saucer drinking coffee subtitle reads And then there are the intellectual pleasures

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'A Woman Is a Woman' [1961] dir. Jean-Luc Godard) Anna Karina in a newsstand peering over the cover of a magazine

checking out the drama

Jean Luc Godard saying the solution is to stop making films for imperialism.

simple really 💅

Une vraie jeune fille (1976) dir. Catherine Breillat two feet in red shoes standing in grass subtitled I returned to my lonely outings

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Isabelle Huppert in Malina (1991) she is kneeling and lighting her cigarette off a large flame coming from a gas stove burner

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A Mormon Maid (1917) dir Robert Z. Leonard a serious and focused looking young woman proclaiming Only love and death change all things.

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woman in a large hat and dark glasses subtitled What a rotten day it's turning out to be

The Inheritance (1962)
dir: Masaki Kobayashi 📽️

A Woman Is A Woman (1961) dir: Jean-Luc Godard man: say something nice Anna Karina: leave me alone

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Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky a child asks Papa is it the end of the world? then gazes plaintively at the camera

who up pondering the infinite

Hello and welcome back to baseball, the sport where 9 men on one team must attempt to defeat Shohei Ohtani.

Agnes Varda saying the world's in bad shape and I'm overwhelmed.

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