If the New Wave was perhaps not so new and far too vague, it brought two emblematic filmmakers of the second half of the 20th century to shore.
François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard embodied the movement more than anyone else.
They started out together, allies and friends, before falling out.
The two cinephiles, fanatics in the front rows at Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque, first expressed their likes and dislikes in
the Cahiers du cinema
and in
Arts
, gunning down dad's cinema, French quality, adulating directors designated as authors (Lang, Hitchcock, Hawks, Fuller, Renoir, Rossellini).
At the end of the 1950s, the two young Turks made their first feature film, after having co-directed a short,
Une histoire d'eau
, with Jean-Claude Brialy.
Truffaut triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 with
Les Quatre Cents Coups
.
The following year, with
À bout de souffle
, whose story and title were prompted by Truffaut, Godard sent…
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