Encounter 3 - The protagonists: Jean-Luc Godard

The Nouvelle Vague was also born from the dual relationship of love and detachment with classic American cinema, which is also a painful confrontation between myth and reality. A bout the souffle (1960) is a key film in this sense, through the use of metalanguage and the disruption of traditional narration. Godard continued his research on language through other important films such as Questa è la mia vita (1962), Le mépris (1963), Bande à part (1964), Alphaville (1965), until he elaborated a ‘political’ idea of his own cinema around 1968.