 Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm and is an example of European art cinema.Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.The Left Bank, or "Rive Gauche", group is a contingent of filmmakers associated with the French New Wave, first identified as such by Richard Roud.