Q 01/05

Godard's first feature, Breathless (1960), paired the American actress Seberg with which French actor?

A) Jean-Louis Trintignant

B) Jean-Paul Belmondo

C) Jean-Pierre Léaud

D) Jean-Claude Brialy

Answer · why

B) Jean-Paul Belmondo

Godard had already tipped him in print in 1958 as 'the Michel Simon and the Jules Berry of tomorrow'.

Q 02/05

Which then-unconventional editing technique made Breathless famous?

A) Split screens

B) Jump cuts

C) Freeze frames

D) Slow motion

Answer · why

B) Jump cuts

The film also broke the eyeline match and had characters speak straight to camera.

Q 03/05

Godard was a pioneer of which film movement?

A) Italian Neorealism

B) The French New Wave

C) Dogme 95

D) German Expressionism

Answer · why

B) The French New Wave

He is often called the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

Q 04/05

Before directing, Godard wrote criticism for which influential magazine?

A) Positif

B) Cahiers du Cinéma

C) Sight & Sound

D) La Revue du cinéma

Answer · why

B) Cahiers du Cinéma

He was the first of the young Cinémathèque crowd to be published there after André Bazin co-founded it in 1951.

Q 05/05

Godard held French citizenship and that of which other country, where he spent much of his life?

A) Liechtenstein

B) Switzerland

C) Italy

D) Canada

Answer · why

B) Switzerland

His father was a Swiss physician who moved the family from Paris when Jean-Luc was four.