This article analyses the movie reviews of O Metropolitano, published by the Metropolitan Students Union of Rio de Janeiro, concerning the French cinematographic movement Nouvelle Vague in the light of the newspaper's political and ideological positions. We focuse on the critics by Carlos Diegues, David Neves and Sérgio Augusto in the period going from 1959, when the first news about the Nouvelle Vague began to emerge in Brazil, until 1962, when Cinema Novo was established as a movement.
O Metropolitano; Nouvelle Vague; film criticism