French New Wave: Camera Unbound
Godard, Truffaut, Varda: jump cuts and shooting in the street, can you keep up with the movement?
What this quiz asks
- 1Which film-criticism magazine was the cradle of the French New Wave?
- 2Which François Truffaut film, released in 1959, launched the movement with a bang?
- 3Who directed "Breathless" (1960)?
- 4Which actor plays Antoine Doinel across several Truffaut films?
- 5Which editing device made "Breathless" famous?
- 6Which actress, Godard's muse, starred in "Vivre sa vie" and "Pierrot le Fou"?
- 7Who directed "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959), close to the Left Bank group?
- 8"Le Beau Serge" (1958), one of the movement's very first films, is by whom?
- 9Which critic and theorist, co-founder of Cahiers du cinéma, mentored the group?
- 10Which cinematographer shot "Breathless" and many of Godard's films?
