![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the popular movies of the era, they argued, were dry, recycled, inexpressive and out of touch with the daily lives of post-war French youth.” – “…mainstream cinema, especially in France, was not expressing human life, thought, and emotion in a genuine way. “Those New Wave directors who started as critics, mainly writing for the French journal called Cahiers du Cinema, regularly praised the films they loved and tore apart those films they hated in print.” He wrote the story for Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), one of the French Nouvelle Vague films which set the standard for 1960s film makers around the world to break from the mould of what their audiences expected. His extraordinary contribution to French film included The 400 Blows (1959), Shoot the Pianist (1960) and Jules et Jim (1962). GENIUS SQUARED: ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, A MEETING OF MINDSįrancois Truffaut died of brain cancer when he was 52 years old. ![]()
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