August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
11h 36m
English
2 Agnès Guillemot
The only editor to work with both Godard and Truffaut, Agnès Guillemot’s career spans from the beginning of La Nouvelle vague in the 1960s to the sexual radicalism of Catherine Breillat at the turn of the century. I talked to Agnès in her home in Paris, where she was then living with her husband Claude, a film-maker in his own right. My friend, Sarah Hickson, joined me to lubricate the conversation for which I am immensely grateful. I started, as usual, by asking Agnès about her background.

Agnès Guillemot and Jean-Luc Godard in the cutting room (© les cahiers du cinema, 1985)
I am a war child from a modest background in the ...
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