"Despite the prevailing tastes of the “New Wave” period it is not the traditional film stills -the ones my colleagues and I were paid to produce, that have written the history of cinema, but the “non - film photos”, those that show the methods and characters of the directors and the hidden face of cinema."
~ Raymond Cauchetier
(1920-2021)
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg might as well have invented the concept of “on-screen chemistry” back in 1959. For many of us who grew up loving À bout de souffle, all we wanted was to jump on a plane to Paris with a one-way ticket — to live, to love, and to believe that would be enough for a happy life. It all seemed so simple and easy. I guess that is the power of cinema — or at least, that masterwork of cinema.
