The film that irrevocably changed the rules of editing is rarely emulated in style: the numerous cuts within scenes and across times is just as riveting as it must have been when it first appeared. In a way, a blueprint for all Godard's films that followed.
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg star and most weirdly there is a character called 'Laszlo Kovacs'... Raoul Coutard's naturalistic lightning is in its own way as revolutionary as Cecile's Decugis' fabulous cutting (she is credited for Shoot the Pianist but we know she didn't in fact edit it).
Truffaut gave him the idea and wrote the screenplay to help support him getting started, the same way Rivette had encouraged him to make a short (and Resnais to make a long).
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