An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

Tomorrow morning, Patrick must sign his youngest son up for a holiday camp. But first, he has to get Camille's health booklet from his mom's place, and she won't answer his calls. His eldest son, Michael, has the keys, but honestly, he's got other plans right now.

The Health Booklet

1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze found the "Cahiers du Cinéma". With contributions from a new self-taught generation (Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette...), the magazine revolutionised cinema criticism, and put the figureheads of the New Wave firmly in the spotlight.

Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, caused the same explosion in the 19th century France as in that of the 1960s, when Jacques Rivette decided to adapt it, with Anna Karina in the title role. “This film is banned and it will remain so!” said the General de Gaulle. Exploration of an indictment of incredible modernity which, through the tragedy of the young Suzanne, locked up in the convent against her will, denounces the inequity of a society denying women all moral, political and sexual freedom.

Les Scandales de « La Religieuse »

Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/historian Sylvie Pierre; and archival footage of Jacques Rivette