Deux de la Vague plot
Documentary about the friendship and eventual estrangement between François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, the two leaders of the French Nouvelle Vague who took the film world by storm in the late fifties and early sixties. The film begins with images of Truffaut's triumph in Cannes in 1959, where he was awarded the Golden Palm for directing his feature debut Les quatre cents coups. While Truffaut and his young protagonist (and alter ego) Jean-Pierre Léaud enjoy all the attention, Godard sits somewhat frustrated in Paris in the editorial room of the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, writing reviews. A year later, he is around, when À bout de souffle begins its triumphal march. The Nouvelle Vague is born.