Godard's Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg distinctly expressed the French New Wave's style, and incorporated quotations from several elements of popular culture-specifically American film noir [REF].
The following year Godard made Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier), filmed on location in Geneva,[REF] and dealing with the Algerian War of Independence.