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"At the heart of New Wave technique is the issue of money and production value. In the context of social and economic troubles of a post-WWII France, filmmakers sought low-budget alternatives to the usual production methods. Half necessity and half vision, New Wave directors used all that they had available to channel their artistic visions directly to the theatre."

(Wikipedia "French New Wave")
The art students formal aesthetic seems to be in a constant state of New Wave-ismness. Post war economy...just post.