Catch This: Two in the Wave

Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, once cinematic rebels in the 1960s, went on to become icons of French New Wave Cinema.

Trying to destroy what they saw as institutionalized art, Truffaut's 400 Blows and Godard's Breathless exhibited the underside of French society through both documentary and over-stylized camera play. Godard owed a great debt to Truffaut for assisting in Breathless' production and, during the 50s and 60s, together the two continually enlivened film theory through their writings in the influential Cahiers du Cinema. 

Years later, though, the two grew to hate each other.  

Two in the Wave, playing tonight at the Northwest Film Forum, is both a tour of the sudden success of New Wave Cinema in the 1960s and an inside look at the two directors' once powerful and then bitter relationship. 

Here's the trailer:

Plays through Thursday.

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave.