Lila Biro is a remarkable character who witnessed Rossellini in India, played a key role in the cutting of key titles of the French New Wave, and was a close collaborator of the Hungarian émigré painter, Atila Biro. For me, however, she’s also the star witness in a crime against film grammar: the jump cut. The editing style of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is now legendary, but I’ve always wondered what it must have been like in the cutting room when that revolutionary editorial decision was made. Thanks to Lila, that moment is vividly brought to life.
Daniel Bird
Director
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Heart of a Dog65%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
A Plastic Ocean75%
McQueen74%
Being James Bond77%
Maternal Instinct71%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
My Mom Jayne80%
Maidentrip70%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Extremis69%
Sidney70%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Report61%
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
