All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Cameras, actors, and locations help as well. Scripts are, of course, totally optional. What is really required, however, is passion and determination. Jean-Luc Godard has these qualities in abundance. It’s 1959, and he’s just watched his fellow-critic-slash-obsessive at the esteemed magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, François Truffaut, debut his first feature The 400 Blows at Cannes . Godard has some shorts under his belt. But he’s the last of his gang at the journal to go from writing about films to creating them — Claude Chabrol has already made two of them, the bastard! And Eric Rohmer has also written a novel! The young, hungry Parisian with the sunglasses and the bottomless reservoir of pithy maxims is more than ready to make his ma

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