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Jean Pierre Leaud in The 400 Blows
Nigel Andrews on the 50th birthday of the Nouvelle Vague.
The French New Wave, 50 years old today, was the greatest criminal enterprise in cinema history. A gang of filmmakers led a raid on the Bank of Tradition. They emptied its funds with the sole purpose of closing a near-bankrupt heritage, so that a new art could begin. Drawing aid from their own fund of resources (literature, Italian neo-realism, vérité documentary, the Hollywood B-movie), they created a new syndicate in screen culture. Cinema, almost overnight, became an organised bandit art, united in sedition, steadfast in rupture, forthright in innovation, enduring in immediacy. The following is a Who’s Who of French cinema’s legendary Gang of Seven, its reservoir auteurs. . .
Anna Karina in Pierrot Le Fou
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April 17th, 2009 at 08:57
Jean-Pierre Leaud in 400 Blows always reminds me of David Duchovny. But he never grew up to look like Mulder. Now Jean-Pierre Leaud looks like this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269746/plotsummary