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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

Jun 18, 1992

0h 52m

★ 3.3

Photography is truth. Cinema is truth 24 times a second.

Overview

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Wall to Wall

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Cast

Self - Commentator (voice)

Mark Halliley

Self

Robert Benton

Self

Peter Bogdanovich

Self

Claude Chabrol

Self

Raoul Coutard

Self

Jean-Luc Godard

Self

Anna Karina

Self

László Kovács

Self

Richard Leacock

Self

David Newman

Self

Arthur Penn

Self

Jean Rouch

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