[…] This French New Wave mission statement movie Breathless united several pioneer members of that director-as-author “auteur” style that sprang up from the galvanization of many independent French filmmakers’ initial roles as film critics for the prestigious movie magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Director Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville), François Truffaut (The 400 Blows), who has a story credit for the Breathless screenplay that Jean-Luc Godard is said to have crafted during the actual production of the movie, and technical adviser Claude Chabrol (The Good Girls), “The …read more […]