Nouvelle Vague (film)

Nouvelle Vague English New Wave is a 1990 French film written and directed by JeanLuc Godard. It follows the story of hitchiker Lennox Alain Delon credited as Lui Him, taken in by a wealthy industrialist, Elena TorlatoFavrini or Elle Her, played by Domiziana Giordano. The film was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

The narrative continues with Roger now Elenas kept man. He dotes on her and is obedient to her retinue that includes Elenas lawyer Raoul Dorfman, Raouls girlfriend, the Doctor one of Elenas shareholders, and the Doctors wife Dorothy Parker, a writer like her namesake. After a series of episodes in which both members of the couple express dissatisfaction with the other, and together ruminate on regret, Elena decides to take a boat across the lake to visit some friends. Roger obediently rows the boat, and stops when Elena wants to get in the water, but refuses to join her, citing inability to swim. In a mishap evocative of their first meeting, Roger falls into the water as Elena gets back into the boat. This time, Elena does not help, appearing indifferent to or even unaware of Rogers plight.The servants and Raoul quickly attempt to cover up any existence of Roger but almost immediately there is a new crisis a man identical to Roger, calling himself Richard Lennox and claiming to be Rogers brother, appears. He claims to know about the boating incident and is apparently using that as leverage to take over one of Elenas companies. Where before the figure of Lennox was passive and docile, he is now shrewd and aggressive it is Elena that now becomes pliant. ........

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