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Published in French by Marest éditeur in 2020, Noël Simsolo’s Paroles de cinéma: Nouvelles vagues brings together 29 interviews conducted between 1969 and 1985. Cinema appears here not as a settled canon viewed from a safe historical distance, but as an activity described by people engaged in making it. The span of the conversations preserves viewpoints formed amid changing artistic, social, and economic conditions.

The participants cross national and professional boundaries. French filmmakers including Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Rivette appear alongside the German directors Werner Herzog and R. W. Fassbinder and the Japanese filmmakers Nagisa Ōshima and Yoshishige Yoshida. Actors and artistic collaborators broaden the account beyond directors alone. The plural “new waves” of the subtitle is therefore significant: the volume assembles distinct cultures and working positions rather than reducing cinematic renewal to a single school.

Simsolo’s interview format keeps attention on speech—on decisions, convictions, practical constraints, and the persistent desire to work in cinema. Instead of imposing a retrospective argument over the period, the book allows history to emerge through conversation. Differences of generation and circumstance remain present, while a shared commitment to filmmaking provides continuity across the collection.

For collectors of cinema books and documents of late-twentieth-century film culture, the volume’s importance lies in this concentrated documentary scope. Its 279 pages gather voices that illuminate both celebrated movements and the labor surrounding them, offering a useful counterpoint to histories constructed primarily from finished films or images. The combination of a sixteen-year interview span, an international roster, and attention to collaborators makes the book a substantial primary-source collection rather than simply another overview of the New Wave.