Paula Delsol was one of very few women directing features during the French New Wave, and The Drift has long been missing from the canon that celebrates Godard and Truffaut. Her heroine Jacquie hits the road with a musician, gets left behind and moves from man to man as the film quietly asks how free 1960s French women really were. If you think you know the New Wave, this restoration is a correction worth seeing.
What to expect
A festival screening of a newly restored 1962 film in a Lincoln Center cinema. Expect a loose, episodic road-movie structure that follows Jacquie from one encounter to the next, with a sharp point of view on its heroine.
Good to know
- Screenings are held in Lincoln Center's theaters around 65th Street; check your ticket for the exact auditorium.
- Take the 1 train to 66 St–Lincoln Center, or the A, B, C, D to 59 St–Columbus Circle and walk north.
- NYFF tickets are sold per screening and popular titles sell out; standby lines sometimes form for sold-out shows.
- In French with English subtitles.
- The film screens more than once over the festival's opening weekend.
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Common questions
Who directed The Drift?
Paula Delsol, a French filmmaker working during the New Wave era.
What section of NYFF is it in?
Revivals, which presents restored classics and rediscoveries.
