In conversations about the radical school of playfully experimental filmmaking known as the French New Wave, certain names tend to come up again and again. Jean-Luc Godard, the man behind the 1960 classic Breathless, established that nothing would ever be cooler than bored French people wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes. Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Jules et Jim effectively define the French New Wave for many cinephiles, his rollickingly kinetic style having…
Jacques Rivette, Titan of the French New Wave, Dies at 87
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