Editing Jean-Luc Godard (section)

=== ''Le petit soldat'' and ''Les Carabiniers'' ===
''Le petit soldat'' was not released until 1963, the first of three films he released that year. It dealt with the [[Algerian War of Independence]] and was banned by the French government for the next two years due to its political nature.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Brody |first1=Richard |title=Godard's Truthful Torture Scene |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/godards-truthful-torture-scene |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=14 September 2022 |archive-date=24 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924210256/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/godards-truthful-torture-scene |url-status=live }}</ref> The 'little soldier' Bruno Forestier was played by [[Michel Subor]]. Forestier was a character close to Godard himself, an image-maker and intellectual, 'more or less my spokesman, but not totally' Godard told an interviewer.{{sfn|Brody|2008|p=92}}

The film begins on 13 May 1958, the date of the [[May 1958 crisis|attempted putsch in Algeria]], and ends later the same month. In the film, Bruno Forestier, a [[photojournalist]] who has links with a right-wing paramilitary group working for the French government, is ordered to murder a professor accused of aiding the Algerian resistance. He is in love with Veronica Dreyer, a young woman who has worked with the Algerian fighters. He is captured by Algerian militants and tortured. His organization captures and tortures her. In making ''Le petit soldat'', Godard took the unusual step of writing dialogue every day and calling the lines to the actors during filming – a technique made possible by filming without direct sound and dubbing dialogue in post-production.{{sfn|Brody|2008|p=86}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Le Petit Soldat (1957) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/81103/le-petit-soldat#synopsis |website=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=14 September 2022 |archive-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914230024/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/81103/le-petit-soldat#synopsis |url-status=live }}</ref>

His following film was ''[[The Carabineers|Les Carabiniers]]'', based on a story by [[Roberto Rossellini]], one of Godard's influences.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kolker |first1=Robert Phillip |title=Bernardo Bertolucci |year=1985 |page=34 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195204926 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvQqAQAAIAAJ |access-date=22 March 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164807/https://books.google.com/books?id=tvQqAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> The film follows two peasants who join the army of a king, only to find futility in the whole thing as the king reveals the deception of war-administrating leaders.