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French New Wave cinema giant Jacques Rivette’s 1961 first film Paris Nous Appartient [Paris Belongs to Us] concerns the young and artistic elite who stay in deserted Paris in August, and particularly Terry Yordan (Françoise […]
The 1965 film Paris Vu Par [Six in Paris] is a starry, enjoyable French New Wave portmanteau movie or anthology film, exploring the delights of different parts of Paris, as seen through the eyes of […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1960 black and white romantic mystery drama Les Bonnes Femmes [The Girls] tells the tale of four young women – Jane (Bernadette Lafont), Ginette (Chabrol’s later wife Stéphane Audran), Jacqueline (Clotilde Joano) […]
The deservedly much admired 1972 French New Wave classic film Love in the Afternoon [L’Amour l’après-midi] [Chloe in the Afternoon] stars Bernard Verley, Zouzou, and Françoise Verley, and is the last of the six of […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s second film in terms of shooting follows his spectacular debut with Breathless (1960). It stars Michel Subor as Bruno Forestier, a young French terrorist who is turned over to the Geneva police […]
French New Wave luminary director Jean-Luc Godard is on middling form here in this lively and provocative 1963 French drama about youngsters involved in an unnecessary civil war in an imaginary country. It is a […]
Jean-Paul Belmondo was reunited with Jean-Luc Godard for Une Femme est une Femme [A Woman Is a Woman] (1961) after the lead role in Breathless [À bout de souffle] (1960) made him a major star of […]