This is arguably one of the dozen or so most influential films of the twentieth century.
The contrast with everything that went before A bout de souffle is stunning... [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...]
Shortly after making his first commercial film, Les Mistons, in 1958, François
Truffaut decided to make a short documentary film about the floods being experienced by
Paris at the time... [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...]
On the surface, this is probably Jean-Luc Godard’s most conventional film, with expensive
location work, a large cast with some star names. Conspicuous by their absence are
the cynical intellectual humour... [More...]
Jean-Luc Godard’s fifth film sees a radical departure from his earlier films and the emergence
of a more politically antagonistic form of cinema... [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...]
Originally titled La Femme
mariée, this controversial film from one of the leading
lights of the French New Wave was banned by the censor for its sexually
explicit scenes... [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...]
By the mid-1960s, there were signs that the French New Wave had all but
run its course. Its leading lights – François Truffaut,
Jean-Luc Godard... [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...]
This is another exquisitely funny and very stylish piece of cinema from one of France’s
greatest directors, Jean-Luc Godard. It is also significant in that it is the first
of Godard’s films in which the director... [More...]
