The friendship and fallout of directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut is the subject of Emmanuel Laurent's new documentary, Two in the Wave. Two in the Wave is a documentary about the tumultuous relationship between Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, the two pillars of the New Wave movement of the 1960s in French cinema. Two sine waves travelling in opposite directions create a standing wave . They also happened to be best friends. Here's why the third wave of coronavirus may look different than the first two. A love affair so passionate it wasn't long before it turned into a full-blown hate affair. For much of “Two in the Wave,’’ Léaud is at Truffaut’s side. COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing, but deaths are not. Directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. A new documentary, “Two in the Wave,” uses archival footage to tell a very condensed story of two of the most famous directors to emerge from the French New Wave… The U.S. third wave may look different from the past two. Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship and of a break-up. Waves 2 and 4 in the above picture are corrections. A travelling wave moves from one place to another, whereas a standing wave appears to stand still, vibrating in place. The corrective wave normally has three distinct price movements – two in the direction of the main correction (A and C) and one against it (B). Directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; Francois Truffaut two years later. In this animation, two waves (with the same amplitude, frequency, and wavelength) are travelling in opposite directions. They also happened to be best friends. Love of movies brings them together. At the heart of the creative orgy that was the Nouvelle Vague was one key love affair. The documentary's structure goes two different ways as well as Laurent uses a unique device in Le Besco to string together his themes but falls down when it comes to using more conventional filmmaking tools like editing in a film clip. For any Nouvelle Vague-ist, it ought to have been a joy. Playing the director’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel in “The 400 Blows’’ made Léaud an overnight sensation. After the triumphs of The 400 Blows and A bout de souffle (Breathless) in 1959 a chill descends on their close relationship in the wake of the student revolts of May 1968. 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