Godard filmed the last scene of “Breathless” without crowd control and with a hand-held camera.

This week in The New Yorker, Richard Brody writes about Jean-Luc Godard, with a related slide show online. In an mp3, Brody discusses watching Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, their tumultuous friendship, and French New Wave cinema.

Click here to listen to the sound file, here to watch the slide show, with photos from the book Photos de Cinéma, by Raymond Cauchetier.