French Cinema

A Bout de Souffle/Breathless was created in 1958 by Jean-Luc Godard, a French director who belonged to the New Wave movement. This film was considered as one of the masterpiece of the cinematographic trend, along with other works by Truffaut (Les 400 Coups), Chabrol (Les Cousins) or Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour), and thus it illustrates the characteristics of this movement as well as the themes and ideas shared by its members.