Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut in TWO IN THE WAVE, a film by Emmanuel Laurent. Image courtesy of Lober Films. All rights reserved.
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Two in the Wave (2009/2010)
Also Known As: Deux de la Vague
Opened: 05/19/2010 Limited
| Limited | 05/19/2010 | |
| Film Forum/NYC | 05/19/2010 - 06/10/2010 | 23 days |
| Hollywood Thea... | 12/03/2010 - 12/05/2010 | 3 days |
| Hollywood Thea... | 12/10/2010 - 12/12/2010 | 3 days |
| DVD | 02/22/2011 |
Genre: French Documentary (In French with English Subtitles)
Rated: Unknown Rating
Synopsis
The French New Wave crashed onto international shores when Francois Truffaut's debut feature, The 400 Blows, premiered at Cannes in 1959, followed quickly by Jean-Luc Godard's equally thrilling Breathless, based on a Truffaut story. The two filmmaking rebels, great friends and fellow graduates of the Cahiers du Cinema, for which both wrote extensively, hailed from different sides of the tracks: Truffaut, a poor reform school boy, and Godard, a Swiss hautebourgeois. Both cast Jean-Pierre Leaud in many of their movies (for Truffaut, as his alter-ego, Antoine Doinel) and led the movement to save Henri Langlois's job at the Cinematheque Francaise in '68. Two In The Wave poignantly melds revealing period footage of both men (and of Leaud, torn between father-figures) with scenes from some of their greatest films, as it moves inexorably toward their bitter falling-out. (Karen Cooper, Film Forum)
