Directed by:
Emmanuel LaurentScreenplay:
Antoine de BaecqueCast:
Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Chabrol, Raoul Coutard, Jean Desailly (more)Plots(1)
Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Francois Truffaut two years later. Love of movies brings them together. They write in the same magazines, Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. When the younger of the two becomes a filmmaker with The 400 Blows, which triumphs in Cannes in 1959, he helps his older friend shift to directing, offering him a screenplay which already has a title, A bout de souffle, or Breathless. Through the 1960s the two loyally support each other. History and politics separate them in 1968, when Godard plunges into radical politics but Truffaut continues his career as before. Between the two of them, the actor Jean-Pierre Leaud is torn like a child caught between two separated and warring parents. Their friendship and their break-up embody the story of French cinema. (Funfilm Distribution)
(more)Cast
Anouk Aimée
France
Best movies:
A Man and a Woman (1966)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Les Plus Belles Années d'une vie (2019)
Jean-Pierre Aumont
France
Best movies:
Day for Night (1973)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1961)
Charles Aznavour
France
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Tin Drum (1979)
High Infidelity (1964)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
Le Magnifique (1973)
The Professional (1981)
Jacqueline Bisset
UK
Best movies:
Le Magnifique (1973)
Day for Night (1973)
New Year's Day (2000)
Jean-Claude Brialy
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Holy Year (1976)
Claude Chabrol
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
Le Beau Serge (1958)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1961)
Raoul Coutard
France
Jean Desailly
France
Best movies:
The Professional (1981)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
The Soft Skin (1964)
Marie Dubois
France
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Les Grandes Gueules (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
France
Best movies:
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
My Life to Live (1962)
À bout de souffle (1960)
Claude Jade
France
Best movies:
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Trop c'est trop (1975)
Bed & Board (1970)
Anna Karina
Denmark
Best movies:
Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
My Life to Live (1962)
Bernadette Lafont
France
Best movies:
The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
Le Beau Serge (1958)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
Fritz Lang
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Contempt (1963)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
France
Best movies:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Day for Night (1973)
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Isild Le Besco
France
Best movies:
My King (2015)
The Good Heart (2009)
A Parting Shot (2007)
Yves Montand
Italy
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1986)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Jeanne Moreau
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Back to the Wall (1958)
Jack Palance
USA
Best movies:
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003) (music video)
The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976)
Sudden Fear (1952)