Jean-Luc Godard – Breathless
The cooler-than-cool, jump-cut addled Breathless, from French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard, took cinema’s breath away, kickstarting similarly iconoclastic film movements across the globe. Surprisingly, it wasn’t invited to Cannes until after its release, and won no awards. If the most French movie ever made can’t win the most French film festival, what are we even doing?