Q 01/05

Which French actor became a star as the car thief Michel in Breathless?

A) Alain Delon

B) Jean-Paul Belmondo

C) Yves Montand

D) Jean-Louis Trintignant

Answer · why

B) Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo had mostly been cast as minor rebels and crooks; his Michel, a petty criminal who models himself on Humphrey Bogart, made him the l...

Q 02/05

Which film magazine did Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer and Chabrol all write for before directing?

A) Positif

B) Cahiers du cinéma

C) Les Temps Modernes

D) L'Écran français

Answer · why

B) Cahiers du cinéma

Cahiers du cinéma, founded in 1951, wore plain bright yellow covers with a film still and no headlines; its young critics savaged French studio pictur...

Q 03/05

In Godard's Band of Outsiders, the three leads sprint through which Paris museum to beat a record?

A) Musée Rodin

B) Musée Carnavalet

C) The Louvre

D) Musée de l'Orangerie

Answer · why

C) The Louvre

The Louvre: Franz, Arthur and Odile race through its galleries to beat an American's supposed record, a stunt that has nothing to do with the robbery ...

Q 04/05

Which French singer played the haunted pianist in Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player?

A) Yves Montand

B) Jacques Brel

C) Charles Aznavour

D) Serge Gainsbourg

Answer · why

C) Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour played a former concert pianist hiding out in a cheap Paris bar; Truffaut took the story from an American pulp novel as a tribute to ...

Q 05/05

Which editing technique did Breathless make famous?

A) Split screen

B) Jump cuts

C) Slow motion

D) Match dissolves

Answer · why

B) Jump cuts

Jump cuts: the first edit ran far too long, so instead of dropping whole scenes Godard snipped pieces out of the middle of shots and left the jolts sh...