Q 01/05

What is the French name for the New Wave?

A) Tradition de Qualité

B) Cinéma Vérité

C) Nouvelle Vague

D) Caméra-Stylo

Answer · why

C) Nouvelle Vague

The movement peaked roughly between 1958 and 1962.

Q 02/05

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

A) Positif

B) Cahiers du cinéma

C) Les Temps Modernes

D) L'Écran français

Answer · why

B) Cahiers du cinéma

Its early covers were film stills on bright yellow with no headlines.

Q 03/05

Who directed Breathless (1960)?

A) Claude Chabrol

B) François Truffaut

C) Jean-Luc Godard

D) Alain Resnais

Answer · why

C) Jean-Luc Godard

It was his first feature and Jean-Paul Belmondo's breakthrough.

Q 04/05

Who directed The 400 Blows (1959)?

A) Éric Rohmer

B) Jean-Luc Godard

C) François Truffaut

D) Louis Malle

Answer · why

C) François Truffaut

It was his debut and his most successful film in France, with 4.1 million admissions.

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

Godard trimmed long takes from the middle to hit a 90-minute running time, on Melville's advice.

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