Jean-Luc Godard

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Éloge de l’amour (2001)

    2001-2010DramaFranceJean-Luc GodardRomance
    Éloge de l'amour (2001) (HD)
    Éloge de l’amour (2001) (HD)

    Synopsis
    (1)
    Someone we hear but don’t see talks of a project entitled Eloge de l’amour, which deals with the four key moments of love: the meeting, the physical passion, the quarrels and separation, the reconciliation. These moments are seen through three couples: young, adult and elderly. Is the project to be a play, a film, or even an opera? A sort of servant or assistant always accompanies the author of the project.

    Adults pose a real problem. Unlike old people or young people, an adult is hard to define without telling a story. The author of the project finally meets an extraordinary young woman. In fact, they had already met three years earlier when Edgar had by chance been present during a discussion between some Americans and the young woman’s grandparents. When he comes to tell the young woman that his project is on, Edgar learns that she has died.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Notre musique AKA Our Music (2004)

    Jean-Luc Godard2001-2010ArthouseDramaFrance
    Notre musique (2004)
    Notre musique (2004)

    Quote:
    Notre Musique, is an indictment of modern times divided into three “kingdoms”: “Enfer” (“Hell”), “Purgatoire” (“Purgatory”) and “Paradis” (“Paradise”). A unqiue blend of almost abstract cinema, fiction, and documentary. It opens with a montage entitled “Hell”, which shows real and fictional footage of carnage: soldiers, atrocities, war. As brief as it is, the relentless and strangely beautiful barrage of violence is enough to make anybody despair of the human race.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle AKA 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

    Jean-Luc Godard1961-1970ArthouseFrance
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (1967)

    PLOT: In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Bande à part AKA Band of Outsiders (1964) (HD)

    Jean-Luc Godard1961-1970ComedyCrimeFrance
    Bande à part (1964) (HD)
    Bande à part (1964) (HD)

    Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Le mépris aka Contempt (1963)

    Jean-Luc Godard1961-1970DramaFrance
    Le mépris (1963)
    Le mépris (1963)

    Quote:
    “C’est un film simple sur des choses compliquées”, this is how J.L. Godard once described Le mépris : “It’s a simple film about complicated things.”

    I. “Totalement, tendrement, tragiquement”
    II Cinecittà, “All kinds of real human beings.”
    III. Prokosch’s villa in Rome – “About the money and your wife”
    IV. In the appartment – “I’m not going, I’m not going”
    V. In the theater (where one sells lies)
    VI. Capri – “I have to know why you despise me”
    VII. “Adieu”
    VIII. Ithaque – “Silenzio!”Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Opération ”Béton” AKA Operation ”Concrete” (1953) (HD)

    Jean-Luc Godard1951-1960DocumentarySwitzerland
    Opération ''Béton'' (1953)
    Opération ”Béton” (1953)

    Jean-Luc Godard’s first film. After returning to Switzerland, Godard went to work as a manual worker at a dam building site, using the money he earned to buy a camera, and making a short documentary about the building of the Grand Dixence Dam.
    (Also known as Operation ”Concrete”.)Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’ (2023)

    Jean-Luc Godard2021-2030FranceShort Film
    Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist ‘Phony Wars’ (2023)
    Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist ‘Phony Wars’ (2023)

    Godard’s last film, a trailer for a movie that will never exist, shows a series of collages on what appears to be photographic paper, and is about Belgian surrealist/poet Charles Plisnier, who was expelled from the Communist party in 1937.

    Quote: A few months before he left the screen for all eternity, Jean-Luc Godard put the finishing touches to a one-of-a-kind, nineteen-minute short that the Festival de Cannes is honoured to present in a world première. Fabrice Aragno, one of his closest colleagues, reflects on how Drôles de guerres came to be — a film that sets out to ‘shape thought‘.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Le mépris aka Contempt (1963) (HD)

    1961-1970DramaFranceJean-Luc Godard

    Quote:
    “C’est un film simple sur des choses compliquées”, this is how J.L. Godard once described Le mépris : “It’s a simple film about complicated things.”Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Une bonne à tout faire (1981)

    1981-1990ArthouseExperimentalFranceJean-Luc Godard

    This little film was shot by Jean-Luc Godard in 1981 when he was visiting Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco, where Coppola was directing One from the Heart. It stars Andrei Konchalovsky reading a book about Cézanne, while a crew is trying to fix the light to film a painting by Georges de La Tour, Le Nouveau-né.

    A few seconds of this film are included in Godard’s Les trois désastres.Read More »

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