'A clinical description of reality. I insist on the word 'clinical' is how Jean-Luc Godard described this simple story of despair and motherly love. Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959, where it won the Grand Prix Eurovision, Marcel Hanoun's debut feature film fascinated Godard and several Nouvelle Vague filmmakers due to its strong poetic dimension, resulting from the disassociation between image and sound.

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