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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | New wave, old problem |
 | | Alan Sillitoe adapted the first from his own novel, the second from his own short story, and in each case its young protagonist announces in an introductory voiceover that he is in rebellion against conformism and/or the middle-class status quo. |
 | | But partly due to the style of their directors, partly to the contrast in temperament of their protagonists, they are very different films. |
 | | In France, on the other hand, when Chabrol's The Cousins, Godard's Breathless and Truffaut's The 400 Blows appeared in 1959, they were financed by a more flexible industry, whose independent producers continued to back all three directors, and who themselves were partly financed by government subvention. |
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