No François Truffaut fans here?

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What a surprise!
 
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More of a Jean-Luc Godard man myself......
Undoubtedly Godard was a great celluloid poet belonging to the same generation as Truffaut. Unfortunately Nouvelle Vague is forgotten by most apart from a few aging cinephiles. Monochromatic French films were often screened on BBC2 and Channel 4 (the infamous red triangle to advise viewer discretion) during the 1980s.
 
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I'm not a red-triangle merchant.... I'm an Orthodox Christian these days.....though in less illumined times I did once stay up watching a French film called Homework (Les Devoirs) on Channel 4 on an old black and white TV, and fell asleep because it was boring.. and my mate at school told me I missed all the sauce... Don't know if he was bullshitting or not to this day and can't be bothered to check.

Jean Luc Goddard made Pierrot Le Fou and A Bout de Soufle, which became 'Breathless' a Hollywood remake with Richard Gere which wasn't half bad.

The Ligne de Chance is her going on about her 'good luck line' on her palm. and him going on about her 'ligne de hanche' which is her thighs....it amused and enthralled me as a student at Uni with a French girlfriend, when I loved all things froggy... now I mostly love froggy wine, restaurants and their right wing politics...though that looks doomed because they've got the game all stitched up between the paedocrats...I liked the French Nouvelle Vague and as far as I know there wasn't much sauce or red or black triangles involved...

Jean Paul Belmondo was a superstar of cinema.....something childlike but obviously masculine about him.... Don't think the yanks could ever recreate that.

 
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I'd much rather watch French new wave cinema than anything Hollyweird has to offer, even golden age Hollyweird. Kenneth Anger, Orson Welles and the great Woody Allen are the only American film directors I've enjoyed and Anger's scandalous Hollywood Babylon certainly lifted the lid on the sordid detail of old Hollyweird. Perportedly the third volume of Hollywood Babylon was considered too controversial to even publish as it contained a lot of litigious gossip about scientology which would have had Tom Cruise's lawyers coming down hard on it.
 
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