François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard are probably the most famous representatives of the French New Wave. During February, at the European House in Belgrade, as part of Film Friday, is organizing a cycle of films Trifo vs. Godard, since their careers, after a common, cinematically revolutionary beginning, develop in a completely different way
André Bazen, Jacques Donio-Valcroze, Leonid Kegel and José-Marie Lo Duca founded the magazine Cahiers du cinema in 1951, bringing together as permanent collaborators a few young men who received their film education at countless screenings in the Paris Cinematheque, watching and analyzing the works of Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir, Abel Gans, Jean Vigo, and many others. Among others, they were François Roland Truffaut (1932-1984), who often said that he watched more than 3,000 films in the period 1946‒1956, and Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022), but also Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivet and Eric Romer.
Just a few years later, all five will become directors, and open one of the most important pages in the history of cinema in general – the French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague). In 1960, when Jean-Luc Godard made the film Until the Last Breath, a kind of manifesto of the new wave, all these ideas were shown in practice. (The glow of black, Veljko Radosavljević, 2019)
Every Friday, visitors to the European House will have the opportunity to watch two films – one by Trifoov and the other by Godard. Between these screenings, discussions will be held moderated by Professor Goran Terzić (Faculty of Dramatic Arts), and representatives of the younger generation of critics gathered around the web portal Filmoskopija, which was created under the auspices of the Film Center of Serbia, will participate.
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Movie Friday – Trifo vs. Godard is held with the support of the French Institute in Serbia (Institut français de Serbie), which donated valuable French-produced films for this occasion.