Neo-Noir

What is Neo-Noir?

Neo-noir is a modern or contemporary motion picture rendition of film noir. The term film noir, when translated from French to English, reads dark movie, indicating a sense of something sinister and shadowy.

A neo-noir film is not your average traditional Hollywood movies. They are unconventional in nature. They have all the signs of film-noir with new ideologies and themes and they are not black and white. Neo means new and noir means black , so it means new black. Some prominent neo-noirs of the late 20th and 21st centuries are :

• Fight Club (1999)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
• Seven (1955)
• Drive (2011)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)