Forgotten by today’s audiences as a press-shy eccentric, Jean-Luc Godard is cinema’s most extraordinary one-man revolution: the brainiac French New Wave rebel whose jump-cutting pulp-fiction Breathless (1959) demolishes film language and creates its own via Bogart-worshipping cop-killer Jean-Paul Belmondo and American student Jean Seberg. It’s obligatory viewing – as is the droll, illogical Alphaville (1965), which respins the Orpheus myth as a pop-culture-quoting future-noir that sends Eddie Constantine travelling across space to save Anna Karina from a loveless, Orwellian city (or ’60s Paris).
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