Two in the Wave (2010) ( Deux de la Vague ) ( Two in Nouvelle Vague: Godard and Truffaut (2 in the Wave) )

Two in the Wave (2010) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Deux de la Vague
Alternate Title: Two in Nouvelle Vague: Godard and Truffaut (2 in the Wave)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
93 min + 2 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Emmanuel Laurent

Written By:
Antoine de Baecque

Actors:
Isild Le Besco ..... Herself (archive footage)
Anouk Aimee ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Aumont ..... Himself (archive footage)
Charles Aznavour ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Herself (archive footage)
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean-Claude Brialy ..... Herself (archive footage)
Anna Carina ..... Himself (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau ..... Himself (archive footage)
Raoul Coutard ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean Desailly ..... Herself (archive footage)
Marie Dubois ..... Himself (archive footage)
Jean-Luc Godard ..... Herself (archive footage)
Chantal Goya

Synopsis:

Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship and estrangement. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; François Truffaut two years later. Love of movies brings them together. They write in the same magazines, Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. When the younger of the two becomes a filmmaker with The 400 Blows, which triumphs in Cannes in 1959, he helps his older friend shift to directing, offering him a screenplay which already has a title, A bout de souffle, or Breathless. Through the 1960s the two loyally support each other. History and politics separate them in 1968 and afterwards - when Godard plunges into radical politics but Truffaut continues his career as before. Between the two of them, the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud is torn like a child caught between two separated and warring parents. Their friendship and their break-up embody the story of French cinema. Exploring the letters, personal archives and films of the two New Wave directors, Two in the Wave takes us back to a prodigious decade that transformed the world of cinema.

In Emmanuel Laurent's new documentary, "Two in the Wave," the "two" are the filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. The wave, needless to say, is La Nouvelle Vague, a journalistic name that not only stuck to Truffaut, Mr. Godard and their colleagues, but that also changed the way film history is understood. Since the days when that Gallic wave crashed ashore, critics and cinephiles have scanned the horizon looking for the next one, while groups of young directors and critics, sometimes consciously, sometimes not, seek to replicate the daring and self-confidence that bubbled up in France in the late 1950s and early '60s. Mr. Laurent, for his part, dutifully combs the beach, gathering wonderful bits of detritus from that much-mythologized moment. The surviving members of the New Wave ? Truffaut died in 1984 ? are by now venerated members of the old guard. (Mr. Godard, at 79, showed his new film at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.) But "Two in the Wave" wisely resists the temptation to invite them to share memories of youth. Rather, it gathers newspaper clippings, newsreel footage and movie clips to assemble a present-tense essay that is both time capsule and collage

Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Franois Truffaut in 1932. They watched the same films wrote for the same magazines and when Truffaut storms the international cinema scene at Cannes in 1959 he helps his pal move into filmmaking. The pair become the enfants terribles of the film world influencing generations around the globe until the events of 1968 drive a wedge between them politically.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 10 November, 2013.