Summary: FOR EVER MOZART mixes fast-paced intellectual vaudeville with graceful philosophical reflections and startling moments of quiet beauty that pierce through the rapid-fire barrage of quotation and gunfire. (Newyorkerfilms)

Summary: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend... (imdb)

Summary: A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film. (imdb)

Summary: Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs. (imdb)

Summary: Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle." (imdb)

Summary: A strange mystery set in a hotel.

Summary: The story of a woman who falls in love with one of the security guards of the bank she is robbing.

Summary: Students Veronique and Charlotte meet the same man separately, who makes a date with each of them separately the next evening. When they both show up, he shows up, too, with a third women... (imdb)

Summary: This complex, intimately scaled study of the effect of television on the French family is constructed around Godard's interviews with a school girl and school boy, Camille and Arnaud. Godard's provocative questions to the children range from the philosophical (Do you think you have an existence?) to the social (What does revolution mean to you?).

Summary: Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence... (imdb)

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: A fascinating insight into the working methods of a true auteur (imdb)

Summary: This film examines the evolution of a young Marxist militant and the contradictions between the Marxist and the bourgeois ideology that coexist in her daily life. A voice-off, the voice of the political awareness, carefully inspects the life conditions of this young woman.

Summary: Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria. (imdb)

Summary: Three stories, a couple's telephone conversation, a cosmic discussion and splendid images of nature.

Summary: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. (imdb)

Summary: Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this political film. (All Movie Guide)

Summary: Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plotless images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth. (imdb)

Summary: Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet.... (imdb)

Summary: Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris. (imdb)

Summary: During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits. (imdb)

Summary: Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life... (imdb)

Summary: The film tells the story of exotic dancer Angéla as she attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile. In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his friend Alfred.

Summary: Trailer for the film "Pierrot le fou".

Summary: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

Summary: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. (imdb)

Summary: Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language... (imdb)

Summary: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism. (imdb)

Summary: On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making... (imdb)

Summary: Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall. (imdb)

Summary: Nouvelle Vague concerns the return of a man who may or may not have returned from the dead. The film's narrative is extremely disjointed and might be better understood as an essay on the idea of returning. (All Movie Guide)

Summary: The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, "Freedom and Fatherland", is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, "Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud," by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard's own life and work.

Summary: In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy... (imdb)

Summary: An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. (imdb)

Summary: Godard appears as a bumbling cinematographer who drops film cannisters as he rushes to a screening, and he and others board a plane helmed by a pilot who is reading a self-help book about suicide. (AllMovie.com)

Summary: Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel. (imdb)

Summary: A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68. (imdb)

Summary: Introduction to Scénario du film 'Passion'.

Summary: Anthology of stories adapted from the Série Noire books.

Summary: Trailer for the film "Masculin féminin"

Summary: Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International. (imdb)

Summary: Godard juxtaposition between André Malraux's L'espoir and the documentary Microcosmos.

Summary: This short was shot in 1981 and finished in 2006. Godard studies the pictorial nature of cinema on George de la Tour's "Le nouveau-né".

Summary: Clip for France Gall's chanson Plus Haut.

Summary: Godard experimental film combines "Sauve qui peut (la vie)" and other films by other filmmakers.

Summary: Trailer for the film "Le mépris".

Summary: Trailer for the film "Vivre sa vie".

Summary: Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand. (imdb)

Summary: Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man... (imdb)

Summary: A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. (imdb)

Summary: One of Godard's least seen and simultaneously one of his most bitterly hilarious films. An absurdly brutal and minimalist examination of the desperate search for financial backing by two small-time filmmakers, 'Grandeur and Decadence' is knowingly self-referential, sad, and appropriately enough, a film shot on a miniscule budget in 16mm. Based on a novel by James Hadley Chase, with script by Godard. (Letterboxd)

Summary: Godard trailer for Bresson's "Mouchette".

Summary: Trailer for the film "Une femme est une femme".

Summary: Trailer for the film "Week End".

Summary: Short film by Jean-Luc Godard.

Summary: Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend of film, video, and collage. Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinema serves as both a history and critical examination of the cinema in the form of a collection of "chosen moments" from films that may or may not exist. It also offers a self-reflexive analysis of the filmmaker's own life and work. (Rotten Tomatoes)

Summary: Although it's thematically connected to the Cinétracts, this short is not a part of it and it was made shortly before it with the collaboration of the painter Gérard Fromanger.

Summary: In 1977, as part of the musical show "On ne manque pas d'airs", public television commissioned three filmmakers to make a video for a song by Patrick Juvet composed by Jean-Michel Jarre, "Faut pas rêver". Jean-Luc Godard was one of them. (Judith Revault d'Allonnes)

Summary: 10 spots Godard made for stylists Marithe and François Girbaud.

Summary: The three directors explore the future of film and the limits of 3D: Godard's "The Three Disasters" is a challenging blizzard of images, sounds and texts; Greenaway's "Just in Time" explores each corner of Guimarães while Pêra's "Cinesapiens" is a playful sci-fi set in a movie theatre. The closing film of the Critics' Week sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival, 3X3Dis three times cinema in 3D, looking back at cinema itself. (IKSV)

Summary: The video's seven minutes consists of three shots: a wide shot of Godard standing in a room that might be his office, looking ragged, lighting a cigar and proceeding to recite a poetic farewell to the school of his own composition, and a medium shot and a close up from the same angle and camera position, separated by black during which we can hear Godard walk to the camera and zoom in. (kinoslang.blogspot.com)

Summary: A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths.

Summary: This is a behind-the-scenes documentary, directed by Godard called Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (A few notes about the film HAIL MARY).

Summary: A few more spots Godard made for stylists Marithe and François Girbaud.

Summary: In lack of any description available on the web I would call this a montage abuse with a "narateur" who tries to imply a livresque meaning to it all. As with some other Godard movies it's hard to tell if the director is showing the movie or reading the movie to you. Just my 2 cents. (SM)

Summary: 13 European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From different generations and origins, these eminent filmmakers offer many singular styles and visions. François Schuiten, famous Belgian comic book artist (Cities of the Fantastic) imagined animated cartoon links in between these films. (imdb)

Summary: Godard's contribution to the UNICEF film How are the Kids?

Summary: Jean-Luc Godard address two cinematographic letters to young Israeli soldiers who were convicted after refusing to intervene in the occupied territories. (KG)

Summary: Schick trumps Palestine.

Summary: Godard films a 40 minute promo video for French electronics outlet Darty.

Summary: Five more spots Godard made for stylists Marithe and François Girbaud.

Summary: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins: the same as the first, and yet not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries. (Mubi)

Summary: A meditation on love told cinematically as a film-within-a-film.

Summary: At the world premiere of "Gertrud" in Paris, December 1964, Dreyer is greeted by many celebrities of the French cinema: Clouzot, Langlois, Truffaut, Godard, Anna Karina. Afterwards Dreyer delivers short comments on the style of each of his films. (imdb)

Summary: A subtitle warns, "Beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors... (imdb)

Summary: "A propagandistic audio-visual barrage on the senses, which combined Maoism, The Beatles, multiple soundtracks, a point zero of cinema style, nudity, excerpts from Richard Nixon, Georges Pompidou, and The Communist Manifesto." (Jonathan Dawson)

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel). (imdb)

Summary: During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of film directors from around the world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel room, turn on the camera and sound recorder, and, in solitude, answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?". (imdb)

Summary: Charlotte is leaving. Before catching her train, she goes to her apartment for a quick snack -- a steak, as it happens. Walter accompanies her; the little time Charlotte will take to prepare and eat her steak represents his last opportunity to patch things up with her. A tall order, given the utterly unromantic circumstances... (imdb)

Summary: A video project realized by Jean-Luc Godrd in 1993, a succint look at a unique image of war. It's a reduced version of his film Letter to Jane, of which Sontag wrote "The film is also a model lesson about how to read whichever photograph, how to decipher the natural un-innocence of the frame, angle and center of the photograph".

Summary: Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art. (imdb)

Summary: Godard's first short, narrated by himself.

Summary: Documentary about Godard's film 'Passion'

Summary: At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis. (imdb)

Summary: In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war. (imdb)

Summary: A cinematographic poem about violence and love, conceived in Godard's characteristic montage and combination of cinematic material, sounds, language and music.

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house. (imdb)

Summary: Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth to restore the lost artwork of the human race. (imdb)

Summary: How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. (imdb)

Summary: Two of cinema's leading lights meet.

Summary: It examines the parallel lives of two families - one French, one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and video. [Made using footage from the unfinished "Jusqu'à la victoire" (1970)]

Summary: Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman... (imdb)

Summary: This film explores a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution. The movie is comprised of a series of 12 "tableaux" (imdb)

Summary: During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love (imdb)

Summary: Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Summary: Paul Javal, a writer, is hired to work out a script for the new movie about Ulisses, directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Prokosch (imdb)

Summary: Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique is a timeless meditation on war as seen through the prisms of cinema, text and image. (Wellspring Media)

Summary: A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him. (imdb)

Summary: A journalist, Paula Nelson, arrives in Atlantic City, France, to look for her missing ex-boyfriend Richard Politzer. Her enquiries soon reveal that he is dead, murdered by an unknown assassin. Suspecting that Richard may have been the victim of political intrigue, Paula allies herself with gun-toting gangsters, shady police operatives and a writer of detective fiction to try to uncover the truth...

Summary: Four people discuss love and life, learning and revealing more about each other than they ever imagined.

Summary: A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).

Summary: Pierre (Jess Hahn) is a music student and already living on a shoestring when he hears that he has inherited a large sum of money. But just when it looks like his luck is changing for the better, his so-called inheritance is suddenly ephemeral. Saddled with debts, he wanders around the shadier side of the city throughout the summer, trying to survive but instead sinking deeper and deeper into the morass of poverty. His friends help out, and at the end it looks like his luck will be changing once again. (All Movie Guide)

Summary: A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to reach a dry spot in the village. There a young man in a car offers her a lift. They drive around in circles, trying to find a way out of the area, but all ways are blocked by the water. (IMDB)

Summary: An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family. (imdb)

Summary: Godard and Miéville use The Old Place to voice their own personal philosophies; in the process, they manage to speak for humanity as a whole, posing questions that sometimes have no concrete answers. (viennale.at)

Summary: In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her... (imdb)

Summary: Charlotte is young and modern, superficial, cool. She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. There's tension at home, Pierre had her followed a few months before, their marital play has an edge, Pierre slaps her and apologizes. She quizzes Robert: is he acting when he's with her? Events may force her to choose Robert or Pierre.

Summary: Workers on a car factory argue with revolutionary students.

Summary: An hour's worth of montage of documentary images, filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm.

Summary: Four short films by seminal French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard comprise the first cinema DVD in a new series produced by ECM Records. Made between 1993 and 2002, the films "encompass everything: art and freedom, presence and memory, violence and passion - four symphonies composed of images, tones, quotes, and soundtracks". (SM)

Summary: Godard's filmed letter to Cannes Festival President Gilles Jacob. (imdb)

Summary: Godard speaks about philosophy, cinema and his life at his home.

Summary: Godard and Miéville's 1992 contribution to a series of cigarette ads directed by prestigious filmmakers. (Youtube)

Summary: Evlyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Remy, that lives in Paris, during Holidays. After following him in the lovers city, she decides to return home to inform her husband about all.

Summary: Brief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of articles Rohmer wrote for Cahiers du Cinema.

Summary: A scathing auto-critique by Jean-Luc Godard of himself, portrayed as 'The Idiot' by himself.

Summary: One of the first attempts at film for the young Godard see him explore one of his favorite milieus, prostitution.

Summary: On April 24 [2006] the Georges Pompidou Center began a retrospective devoted to a man synonymous with cinema itself: Jean-Luc Godard. Godard and Miéville do a walk-through of the maquette, with Miéville (wo)manning the camera and Godard pointing at things and describing them. (The New York Times)

Summary: Series of vignettes by Gérard Courant since 1978 portraying several filmmakers, film critics, actors and other professionals.

Summary: An 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".

Summary: A talk between Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.

Summary: There's a narrative in here somewhere about a white man called Zohommm!!!, a black man called Grrr???, a woman called Shuick..., and their love triangle.

Summary: A study of the French New Wave. clips from Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette et al.

Summary: Fragments from Histoire(s) du cinéma; religious imagems; tableaux; photograms; documentaries; cartons and superimpressions. (Cineclub de Caen)

Summary: Vrai faux passeport was produced by Godard as part of the Pompidou Center retrospective and the Voyages en Utopie exhibition held in Paris in 2006. What you have here is a pure godardian essay, mixing archives, TV news, films, documentaries and introducing many of the images and thematics that will be used films to come. (KG)

Summary: Each of the six programs is constructed of two complementary segments: A discursive visual essay on one aspect of the production and consumption of images is paired with a related interview on labor and leisure with an individual -- an amateur filmmaker, a dairy farmer, the mathematician René Thom, Godard himself. These extended interviews provide a subjective counterpoint to the theoretical essays on work, economics and mass cultural imagery. (EAI)

Summary: Made for "Cinéastes de notre temps" series. In 1964, several French New Wave directors try to explain its success and its crisis: Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, among others. (surrealmoviez)

Summary: Documentary about the making of "Le Mépris".

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: Claire (Virginie Vitry) is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Claude (Jean-Claude Brialy). As this 28-minute trifle opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange.

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: An experimental attempt to capture the history and spirit of cinema.

Summary: In this free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler, the Chicago Eight become microcosms of French revolutionary society, and Godard and Gorin play Lenin and Karl Rosa, respectively, discussing politics and how to show them through the cinema.

Summary: A postscript film to "Tout va bien", narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the film serves as a 52-minute cinematic essay that deconstructs a single news photograph of Jane Fonda in Vietnam.

Summary: A video essay on Russia and media.

Summary: Godard has been hired to make a film celebrating the 500th anniversary of Lausanne. This film is his videotaped refusal. (imdb)

Summary: Documentary by Richard Mordaunt, documenting the making of the film. As well as a great deal of behind the scenes footage, there are interviews with Godard and clips of news items and speeches, illustrating the period well.

Summary: In 1968, Godard began work on a film in America (One AM or One American Movie) dealing with aspects of resistance and revolution. Dissatisfied with what he had shot, he abandoned the project. Pennebaker here assembles the Godard footage, together with his own coverage of Godard at work (One PM standing for either One Parallel Movie or One Pennebaker Movie)

Summary: In the spring of 1970, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin initiated a tour of university campuses in the United States. The purpose of the tour was to raise funding for a film about revolutionary struggle entitled Till Victory, which was never completed.

Summary: Jean-Luc Godard visits the NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics.

Summary: Behind the scene documentary on Godard's Le Mépris

Summary: Documentary that explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). (imdb)

Summary: A rather condensed documentary about the friendship that developed between Godard and Truffaut, their years at Cahiers du Cinema and influence on the French New Wave, the history of their films and their relationship with Jean-Pierre Léaud, and ultimately, their eventual (and eventful) falling-out.

Summary: A triangle: Franz, Arthur, and Odile. Franz, a young man with Alain Delon good looks, has met Odile in an English class. She lives in Joinville with wealthy benefactors and has mentioned to Franz that Mr. Stolz keeps a pile of 10,000 franc notes unlocked in his room. Franz tells his friend Arthur, a swarthy guy whose shady uncle is pressing him for money. Arthur and Franz, who mimic American movie tough guys, case Odile's house, pressure her to assist them with a burglary, and make passes at her as well. She's alternately compliant and distressed. Will they pull off the heist? (imdb)