“The moment when cinema and cinephilia first consummated their marriage. Two becoming one. Amen.” Katie Rife
“The plot may suggest a classic thriller – a story of gangsters and a toxic passion between a criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and an American student in Paris (Jean Seberg) – but the form is just revolutionary. The narration, the editing, the dialogue, the way the shooting interacts with the city and the people of Paris, all its spontaneity and improvisation: it prefigured a new cinema, movies as manifesto.” Mustapha Benfodil
“This masterpiece of modern French cinema liberated filmmakers from a lot of constraints and began a new era of playfulness. Without it, cinema today would not be what it is.” András Bálint Kovács