Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina enjoyed one of the supreme
director-actor collaborations in movie history. (Godard being Godard, maybe ?enjoyed? isn?t
quite the right verb.) She starred in seven of his films, one fewer than the
number of years they were married. Yet crucial as their pairing was, there?s no
question that the most important professional relationship of Godard?s life was
with someone else. Raoul Coutard, his cinematographer, shot 17 films for
Godard.
The first was ?Breathless.? Coutard participated in the film?s 50th-anniversary
restoration, which opens at the Coolidge and
