Agnès Varda’s second full-length film, and probably her most highly rated work,
is one of the defining films of the French New Wave. Like many of her Nouvelle Vague
contemporaries... [More...]
This is probably director Jean-Luc Godard’s funniest film, although it is in his characteristically
tongue-in-cheek, slightly anarchistic style that uniquely identified his contribution
to the French New Wave... [More...]
One of the most significant films of the French New Wave, Vivre sa vie is quintessentially
Jean-Luc Godard at his best. The approach used in this film is quite different to
his earlier films... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard’s second full-length film after the ground-breaking and highly praised
À bout de souffle was Le Petit soldat, his first political film... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard’s cheeky homage to the low-budget American thriller genre is not
one of his better works but it is a playful and entertaining reworking of a familiar theme... [More...]
If there had to be just one word to sum up Alphaville¸that word would have
to be weird. It is a film that constantly challenges our preconceptions... [More...]
Although it was originally conceived as a modest, low budget homage to
the American gangster film, Pierrot
le fou quickly earned a reputation as one of the most important
films in French cinema and today is regarded... [More...]
Having pretty well deconstructed the American crime thriller in Pierrot
le fou, Jean-Luc Godard goes even further with his next
policier outing, driving the genre to its absolute limits of
abstraction and... [More...]
