Try Éric Rohmer for a different taste of French New Wave. He’s most well known for My Night at Maud's which is part of his “Six Moral Tales”, but my favorite of them is La Collectionneuse.

I subscribed to Criterion a while back just to watch all six.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Rohmer_filmography

Highly recommend "l'Amie de mon Ami", my favorite Rohmer. "Maud" is probably second.

Any movie that’s someone’s favorite movie is one I’ll watch. So, watching it tonight. Thanks for the rec.

The only one of “Comedies and Proverbs” that I’ve seen so far is The Green Ray which is a very sweet film.

I hope you like it!

Thanks. I enjoyed it. That was a long setup for the final scene. I have to wonder if the outfits was Rohmer’s doing or if the actors decided to play a trick on him and he kept it in.

I still prefer the Six Moral Tales and La Collectionneuse remains my favorite Rohmer.

I think I particularly like this film because it is a highly structured story around feelings that can be illogical. The Green Ray is an improvised film, so the polar opposite in a way!

I don’t guess you’ll see this but on the off chance you do, you got me started watching the Rohmer films again and I just watched A Summer’s Tale. What a delight of a film.

Yes that's another great one. Often shown on French TV as one of the more "modern" Rohmers, and because viewers tend to appreciate the aesthetics of that film (Brittany, M. Poupaud)

If you like improvised films, you might enjoy Mike Leigh. His films are very heavy though. I don't know if I have a favorite, but Happy-Go-Lucky is as good to start with as any. His films are more structured in that he workshops them with the actors first, so maybe they are more a collaboration than improvised.

Why would you watch seven movies from a director you dont enjoy? I can understand giving a director a second chance, but seven?

Well, I suppose it's possible I need to ease into his style and one film might not do it. But in fact I'm a completist and all 7 are included among the "1001 Films to See Before you Die". So I suffer 6 more because I want to see all the films in the list.

Now, despite not enjoying his films (and others in the "1001" list, c'mon Warhol!) I was in fact able to appreciate that he has died and the impact he had made on cinema (whether I enjoyed his work or not). So I suppose I look at "1001 Films" as my "film school" class. (That has been going on for several years now, ha ha — and I'm only just closing out the 1960's.) I'm less film-stupid than I was a few years ago — maybe still not erudite (?) enough to appreciate New Wave though.

Thats a really weird way to work, if it doesnt click with you just move on, life is too short to follow some other's ideas and values. Being completionist may not be the best direction if it drags you like that.

Especially since you are getting consistent feedback from your own sub-consiousness. Or just go with the masses and watch top imdb rated ones if lists must be