Nouvelle Vague

Film premiere of La Passe du diable (0:01)

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard tells actor Juliette Gréco, “You thrilled me in Bonjour Tristesse... I live with melancholy.” (0:01)

Godard tells producer Georges “Beau-Beau” de Beauregard, "La Passe du diable is not so much..." 
A guest tells de Beauregard, ”... even better than Ramuntcho.” (0:02)

De Beauregard tells director François Truffaut, "... Your film is going to mesmerize them." 
Godard: ”Don’t worry...” 
Director Suzanne Schiffman: ”It’s no Citizen Kane...” 
Juliette tells director Claude Chabrol, ”... I loved Le Beau Serge.” (0:03)

Schiffman asks Godard, ".... you work up the courage?” (0:05)

Director Jacques Rivette reads, "The 400 Blows will be a film... Fantasy..." 
Godard: ”I would suffer 400 Blows to see the premiere at Cannes.” (0:06)

Scene from The 400 Blows (0:08)

Godard reads to de Beauregard, "... The 400 Blows." 
De Beauregard: ”... I’m either insane or a genius...” (0:09)

Belmondo asks Godard, "You’ll shoot it like Charlotte et son Jules?" (0:15)

Director Roberto Rossellini: "... circle of cinemaniacs... The camera’s a ballpoint pen, an imbecile... rules and habits... ” (0:16)

Schiffman tells Rossellini, "Journey to Italy shook me to the core.” (0:17)

Godard tells Rossellini, ".... my dream came true..." 
Rossellini: ”... end of dream.” (0:18)

Actor Blanch Montel tells Belmondo, "... but this is career suicide." (0:19)

Filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville tells Godard, "... be constantly open and traumatizable... psychology must be sharp..." (0:22)

Actor Jean Seberg tells Godard, “Otto Preminger is the world’s most charming dinner guest and the world’s most sadistic director...” 
Godard: ”... Breathless will be a continuation of your role in Bonjour Tristesse.” (0:25)

Seberg tells Godard, "... on the night of the Saint Joan premier... “ 
Godard: “You were a saint in Saint Joan.” 
“And a sinner in Bonjour Tristesse.”
Seberg’s husband François Moreuil tells Godard, ”Don’t worry...” (0:26)

Seberg tells Moreuil, "Honestly..." (0:28)

Director Claude Chabrol: "Confidence and courage is required..." (0:35)

Godard asks his assistant director Pierre Rissient, "... no words of wisdom...?" (0:39)

Godard tells an actor, "... like the shot in Bergman’s Summer Interlude..." (0:44)

Seberg tells actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, "This is utter madness..." (0:50)

Theater marquee: "PLUS DURE SERA LA CHUTE”
Godard tells Belmondo: “... Bogart in High Sierra and The Big Sleep... The Maltese Falcon.” (0:54)

Godard quotes Duke Ellington to Ressient: "... If you are honest and sincere..." (0:58)

Godard tells Bresson, "Honestly..." (1:03)

Truffaut asks Godard, "You know what Braunberger said before The 400 Blows?..." 
Godard: ”No, idiot...” (1:06)

Rissient reads a letter from de Beauregard: "... we ask the director and crew to work honestly..." (1:10)

Godard tells actor Belmondo, "... Courage." (1:12)

Godard tells Seberg and Belmondo, "... confusion... disgust... despair..." (1:15)

Godard writes to Pierre Braunberger, "... Don’t regret not producing Breathless... Seberg panicked..." (1:16)

Photographer Marc Pierret: "Bonjour Tristesse..." (1:16)

Seberg tells Belmondo, "Between grief and nothingness, I choose grief..." 
Belmondo: ”Grief is idiotic...” (1:19)

Make-up artist Phuong Maittret tells Godard, "Don’t worry..." 
Seberg tells Belmondo, "... I’ve become completely unselfconscious." (1:20)

Godard tells de Beauregard, "... I’m just in it for the laughing gas." (1:22)

Godard: "Don’t worry..." (1:25)

Belmondo: "Don’t worry..." (1:30)

Godard: "... Bergman, who does a superb shot in Monika." 
Godard tells Seberg, ”... not our emotions...” (1:32)

Seberg quotes Godard to Moreuil, "... not our emotions..." (1:34)

Godard tells film editor Cécile Decugis, "... The film is impatient..." (1:38)

Godard tells de Beauregard, "... Don’t worry..." (1:39)

Schiffman: "It’s no Citizen Kane." (1:41)

Titles: “Breathless is considered... After Breathless he became... ‘the star of Breathless’." (1:41)