How filmmaking, romance and the politics of 1968 collide in Michel Hazanavicius's 'Godard Mon Amour'

Few captured the cultural tumult and pace of change in the 1960s quite like French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. From his epochal debut "Breathless" through films such as "Masculine Feminine," "Contempt" and "Weekend," he explored how the political and social climate impacted dynamics between men and women.

With his new "Godard Mon Amour," Michel Hazanavicius, an Oscar winner for "The Artist," has adapted a memoir by Anne Wiazemsky, the actress who married Godard in 1967 after appearing in his "La Chinoise." That film both celebrated and critiqued the student protest movements of the time, as the couple would in real life be swept up in the protests, conflicts and quest for liberation