CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/13/2019

Give 'French New Wave' to the cinephile in your life!

Japanese manga artist Kazuo Kamimura's 1964 poster for Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) is reproduced from Reel Art Press's super-giftable new release, French New Wave: A Revolution in Design, named Criterioncast's Best Film Book to Give This Year. Joshua Brunstig writes, "Where to begin with this beauty. Topping this year’s book buyer’s guide is 2019’s most beautiful film book, the incredibly designed French New Wave… Diving into the history of the French New Wave via a discussion of design, this book is an important and thoughtful text about one of film’s great movements, a series of brief artist profiles that re-contextualize this moment in history in a manner never truly done before. The epitome of a coffee table book, this will no doubt be the topic of any discussion you have after buying it, and any cinephile should be proud to give or receive this deeply important work as a gift this holiday season."