Godard's lost short film Une femme coquette resurfaces on YouTube

A short film by Jean-Luc Godard, believed lost for decades, has been uploaded to YouTube. Titled Une femme coquette, the black-and-white short runs under ten minutes and was shot in 1955 in Geneva. It is Godard's first non-documentary film and his second work chronologically. Inspired by a Guy de Maupassant story, the film had never been distributed and was long considered lost. It was recently posted by user David Heslin with English subtitles. The film tells a brief story of love, betrayal, and temptation in the style of 1950s French cinema, prefiguring Godard's later themes.