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  • Cinematographer
· French · 1924–2016

Raoul Coutard

French cinematographer associated above all with the New Wave and the handheld, available-light look of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. He shot much of Godard’s and François Truffaut’s early films, and came to cinema from years as a war photographer in Indochina.

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Lived
1924–2016
Born
1924
Died
2016
Nationality
French
Roles
Cinematographer

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Cinematography — Film

Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard

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Illustrated portrait of François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Collaborated with · 1960–1968

Coutard photographed Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), and The Bride Wore Black (1968) for Truffaut. The two disagreed sharply over the last of them.

— Wikipedia — Raoul Coutard; The Criterion Collection — Jules and Jim

Illustrated portrait of Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

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Collaborated with · 1959–1983

Coutard shot nearly all of Godard's New Wave features, from Breathless in 1959 through Weekend in 1967, and the two worked together again on Passion (1982) and Prénom Carmen (1983). The handheld camera and available light of those films are largely his.

— Wikipedia — Raoul Coutard; Encyclopaedia Britannica — Breathless (film by Godard, 1960)

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Collaborated with · 1960–1968

François Truffaut

Coutard photographed Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), and The Bride Wore Black (1968) for Truffaut. The two disagreed sharply over the last of them.

— Wikipedia — Raoul Coutard; The Criterion Collection — Jules and Jim

Collaborated with · 1959–1983

Jean-Luc Godard

Coutard shot nearly all of Godard's New Wave features, from Breathless in 1959 through Weekend in 1967, and the two worked together again on Passion (1982) and Prénom Carmen (1983). The handheld camera and available light of those films are largely his.

— Wikipedia — Raoul Coutard; Encyclopaedia Britannica — Breathless (film by Godard, 1960)