Godard’s “To the Last Breath” is often cited as one of the best and most important cinematographic works ever made. In his first feature film, the director mixed American detective stories and the burgeoning aesthetics of the French “Nouvelle Vague”, of which he is considered the manifesto. With Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, it starts out as a gangster movie and becomes a love story. A masterpiece that rewrote the rules of cinema and announced the arrival of a new language of the big screen: the director made decisions day by day, after seeing the dailies, and in this way he found himself not using the easel , to make long tracking shots without tracks and to film the two protagonists along the Champs-Élysées with a camera, the Cameflex, hidden in a bicycle.
13 September 2022 | 11:32
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