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Nearly fifty years ago, a second French Revolution swept through the streets, studios, and movie theaters of Paris, permanently altering long-entrenched conceptions of what cinema could be.

Christened the "French New Wave" (originally a journalistic phrase applied to France's restless postwar generation), this loosely affiliated movement of young critics-turned-directors and Left Bank intellectuals made an immediate impact in the late '50s and early '60s with a series of critical and commercial hits that overthrew the stale, literary-influenc

Director: Christophe Honoré | Writer: Christophe Honoré | Genre: Musical | Cast: Louis Garrel as Ismaël Bénoliel | Ludivine Sagnier as Julie Pommeraye | Chiara Mastroianni as Jeanne | Clotilde Hesme as Alice | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Erwann | Brigitte Roüan as La mère de Julie | Jean-Marie Winling as Le père de Julie

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Agnès Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking films of the past fifty years.

She is widely believed to have presaged the French new wave with her first film, La Pointe Courte, long before creating one of the movement's benchmarks, Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7).