For March’s Curator’s Choice, we have selected Nouvelle Vague, a film that invites audiences into one of the most radiant and provocative moments in world cinema history: Paris, 1959, at the very heart of the French New Wave.

It was the moment when masters whose names still quicken the pulse of cinephiles—Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, and Alain Resnais—were just beginning to emerge. Rejecting tradition, the camera took to the streets, giving birth to a new cinematic language brimming with spontaneity, freedom, and the restless energy of youth.