Styles of National Cinema

1. Magical Realism
2. French New Wave 

Both styles go against the mainstream styles in Hollywood films.

MAGICAL REALISM

An aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements are blended into a realistic atmosphere in order to access a deeper understanding of reality. Magical Realism is a form of fiction which inspires many unique interpretations.

Examples: 

1. "One Hundred Years of Solitude", when one of the characters is shot and his blood trickles all the way across town to his mother.
2. "House of the Spirits" is when a girl with green hair floats away into the clouds because she is so pure.

A professor from Colombia said that "magical realism exists because for us it has to. Life is so bad so often that we can only be happy with the hope of the impossible."

FRENCH NEW WAVE 

A movement in French cinema in the 1960s, led by directors such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut, that abandoned traditional narrative techniques in favor of greater use of symbolism and abstraction and dealt with themes of social alienation,psychopathology, and sexual love. Also called nouvelle vague.

Examples: