wexner center for the arts


Film/Video

Images courtesy of Lorber Films


Images courtesy of Lorber Films
Images courtesy of Lorber Films

New Documentary

Nonfiction filmmaking holds a strong appeal for many committed directors and producers. This ongoing series lets you sample wide-ranging approaches to the contemporary documentary.

Two in the Wave

(Emmanuel Laurent, 2009)

Thu, Oct 14–Fri, Oct 15, 2010  |  7:00PM
Wexner Center for the Arts

Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960) ushered in the French New Wave The New Wave was the seemingly inevitable result of a fast-friendship from opposite sides of the tracks but cemented by time spent on the revered Cahiers du Cinema. Revealing period footage of the pair blended with clips from their respective films provides a wonderful window on this moment in film history and follows it through to the great directors' bitter falling out in 1973. (93 mins., video)

Two in the Wave Trailer