Buried treasure from the margins of the nouvelle vague, this poetic enigma sensitively captures young love through changing tides. Shot over three years in nostalgic color and shimmering black and white, Love at Sea is an elliptical marvel, and the first masterwork from French auteur Guy Gilles.

A piercing portrait of doomed romance that trembles with intensity of feeling, Wall Engravings dances between the sensuality of the moment and the haunted halls of memory. A tale of passion and its melancholy ruins, every one of its 68 minutes feels fit to burst with Guy Gilles’ emotional abundance.

Here’s another post-New Wave favorite, and one of Godard’s most philosophically inspired works. Marking his only collaboration with Gérard Depardieu, Oh, Woe Is Me fractures Greek myth and the detective tale to question love and spirit in a fallen world. Legends clash and a strange new film is born.