There were two black-and-white films of the early 1960s that captured the incipient generational rebellion that was about to boil over. Both of them had immense ripple effects throughout art and pop culture. Both were cheaply made but innovative...with unorthodox camerawork and the adventurous editing that drew on the tradition of experimental cinema. Both captured the slightly depressing physical environment of a European capital that hadn’t recovered from war, and both put brash, insouciant characters front and center and paid little attention to plot. Both also captured a social world that was just being born: Their heroes belonged...
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