“I always thought that cinema was very good. It just lacked sincerity. And that we had to do the same thing better…”
, confides François Truffaut about his film
Les Quatre Cents Coups
, at the start of the superb documentary broadcast on Arte this evening.
The first adventures of Antoine Doinel, presented in 1959 at the Cannes Film Festival, won the prize for directing and marked the rise, if not the launch, of the New Wave movement.
The expression was born from the pen of Françoise Giroud in an article she had devoted to youth.
French Cinematheque
Idhec (today Fémis) is its incubator.
The thousands of kilometers of reel broadcast every day at the Cinémathèque française, but also the street, the people, the human, are the main sources of inspiration.
A young magazine, the
Cahiers du cinema,
is the spokesperson.
François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Eustache, Jacques Rozier, Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Louis…
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