Nouvelle Vague

The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the boulevards of Paris. Their relationship develops as Michel hides out from a dragnet. Breathless uses the famous techniques of the French New Wave: location shooting, improvised dialogue, and a loose narrative form. In addition Godard uses his characteristic jump cuts, deliberate "mismatches" between shots, and references to the history of cinema, art, and music. Much of the film's vigor comes from collisions between popular and high culture: Godard shows us pinups and portraits of women by Picasso and Renoir, and the soundtrack includes both Mozart's clarinet concerto and snippets of French pop radio. When Breathless was first released, audiences and critics responded to the burst of energy it gave the French cinema; it won numerous international awards and became an unexpected box-office sensation.

Bernadette Lafont, c'est une époque, libertaire, et un ton, effronté. C'est une jeune femme, à la fois piquante et élégante, une actrice au naturel qui ne mâche pas ses mots et a su imposer sa gouaille, particulière et généreuse, cette manière bien à elle de traîner sur les mots. La comédie lui colle à la peau, d'ailleurs l'actrice ne parle jamais de travail mais de jeu. Rencontre avec cette petite Nîmoise qui a grandi au cœur des montagnes des Cévennes, repérée par Claude Chabrol et François Truffaut alors qu'elle était encore toute jeune, puis devenue grâce à son style une égérie de la Nouvelle Vague.

The Glauber Rocha Collection presents the restored versions four classics of the Glauber Rocha filmography in double-DVDs with almost ten hours of extra videos, including interviws, trailers, archives, sets of documentaries narrated in first person by the “voices of Glauber” recreating the context where each film was conceived and shown, as well as the dialogue that the author kept with the contemporary production. An indispensable collection for the fans of cinema and the Brazilian culture.

The multifaceted, deeply personal dramatic universe of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinema, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the sixties, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes.

The class of a normal German school travel to a small village in Poland near the sea where no action of any kind can take place. Due to this fact they focus on themselves. Especially one girl, Isa, has to choose between two boys who are fighting against each other. Then a final "test" is made to come to a decision… a test with final results.