After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.
Keywords
- Cannes: En compétition
- Deauville Film Festival
- Festival de Cannes
- Les César du cinéma
- Cinema noir & blanc
- Nouvelle Vague
- The César nominees are...
Actors
- Guillaume Marbeck
- Zoey Deutch
- Aubry Dullin
- Adrien Rouyard
- Antoine Besson
Director
- Richard Linklater
The behind the scenes of the filming of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), a landmark of the French New Wave film movement.
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.