Jean Luc Gedard

Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero, Humphrey Bogart. BREATHLESS is the arguable cornerstone of the French New Wave, exhibiting the trademark documentary shooting style, natural sound design, and thematic interest in the detritus of American popular culture.

Jean-Luc Godard - Numéro deux (1975)
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Drama/Art-house | "Number Two" | Starring: Sandrine Battistella, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierre Oudrey

Jean-Luc Godard says that this film is a remake of À bout de souffle (1960). Due to financial matters, the film was shot on Video. The finished Movie (on Video) was filmed back into 35mm to distribute it that way. This was Godard's first film after the Dziga Vertov collaborations of the late sixties and early seventies,and his last feature film for five years.It can be seen as poised uncertainly between the analytical agitprop of the Vertov period and the more accessible films of the eighties which were his return to commercial film making.Its radical innovation which is at once striking and deeply unsettling for the average viewer is his use of split screen for most of the running length. The film tells of a youngish couple who live a seemingly conventional family life with their two young children and his mother and father, but beneath the facade of normality there runs a relentless deconstruction of the sexual power play of married life,the boredom and frustration of the wife and the alienation of the husband trapped in an exploitative job. An extremely pessimistic and very difficult film to watch.
La vie d'un jeune couple au travers d'un reportage vidéo. Les images se succèdent, présentées sous formes de tableaux présentant les membres de la famille et leurs activités.