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Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

Bresson's thief in Paris, filmed as hands and gestures, and the ending in the prison.

Bardot, a screenwriter and Fritz Lang in Capri; Godard's CinemaScope about a marriage ending.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

Twenty-four hours in the Paris banlieue after a riot, in black and white; "so far, so good".