Michel Poiccard, a small time hood, casually kills a policeman. He goes to Paris to collect some money in order to leave the country, and tries to convince his American girlfriend Patricia to go with him. Patricia Hawks the New York ‘Herald Tribune’ on the Champs-Elysées while trying to establish herself as a journalist. When Michel finally secures the money he needs and is ready to leave the city, Patricia betrays him to the police.
Jean-Luc Godard
He was born in Paris (France) in 1930 and died in Rolle (Switzerland) in 2022. He began his career as a film critic at ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’, where he worked alongside colleagues such as François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, with whom he would shape the Nouvelle Vague. His revolutionary feature film debut, ‘Breathless’ (1959), earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlin, and since then he made more than a hundred films, subverting the narrative forms of the seventh art. The recipient of honorary awards at the Oscars, the European Film Academy, the César Awards and the Locarno and Venice film festivals, his vast filmography includes titles such as ‘Alphaville’ (1965, Golden Bear in Berlin), ‘Pierrot le Fou’ (1965), ‘The Chinese’ (1967), 'First Name: Carmen' (1983, Golden Lion in Venice), ‘In Praise of Love’ (2001, Special Jury Prize at Seminci), ‘Goodbye to Language’ (2014, Jury Prize at Cannes), ‘The Image Book’ (2018, Special Palme d'Or at Cannes) and the seminal ‘Histoire(s) du cinéma’ (1988-1998).
DIRECTOR
Jean-Luc Godard
SCREENPLAY
Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Raoul Coutard
EDITOR
Cécile Decugis, Lila Herman
SOUND
Jacques Maumont
MUSIC
Martial Solal
PRODUCTION
Georges de Beauregard
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Les Films Impéria, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie ( SNC)
CAST
Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Liliane Robin, Michel Fabre
