Hello! I’ve only seen À bout de souffle, Une femme est une femme, Bande à part and Pierrot le fou but I liked all those a lot. I usually get a trifle exasperated with the lead female (possibly rooted in jealousy) and perhaps the plots are a little under-stimulating but in a nut shell I like films were nothing much happens and it’s more about escapism or appreciating the dialogue and cinematography rather than getting in depth with the characters so personally they’re perfect even if (or maybe because) the formula is predictable. Obviously they’re things of beauty (there’s more than sufficient evidence of this from the amount of screen caps that do the rounds on this website alone!) and they instil the obligatory desire to somehow run away to 1960s Paris and live out a carefree existence; all Breton t-shirts and boulangeries and mischief and multiple devoted lovers etc etc. It all get’s a bit Jenny from An Education-ish doesn’t it… “I’m going to be French. And I’m going to Paris. And I’m going to smoke and wear black. And listen to Jacques Brel and I won’t speak. Ever.” / “go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz, and read, and eat good food in nice restaurants, and have fun!”

People get terribly stuffy and pretentious about them and I don’t think that’s was the directors intention.. What do you think? If you like them I’d recommend Jules et Jim (François Truffaut).

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