“When I think about it, Le mépris, seems to me, beyond its psychological study of a woman who despises her husband, the story of castaways of the Western world, survivors of the shipwreck of modernity who, like the heroes of Verne and Stevenson, one day reach a mysterious deserted island
“I was 15 when I saw Pierrot le fou. I had no idea who Godard was.
“Such, in its strange, timeless beauty, is the declaration of Godard’s film. ‘Everything’s all right’ is a statement whose creative force can be gauged by the fact that, in real life, it seems clear that everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
« En 1968. pour la frange la plus radicalisée – la plus gauchiste – des cinéastes, une chose est sûre : il faut apprendre à sortir de la salle de cinéma (de la cinéphilie, de l'obscurantisme) ou la brancher au moins sur quelque chose d'autre. Et pour apprendre, il faut aller à l'école.
“Indeed, work becomes the film’s operative theme, as Isabelle explains to her sister what’s entailed in prostitution with terseness and a matter-of-fact procedure one might expect to find in any office manual.
« Je veux bien faire des essais avec vous, mais avant, il faut que je fasse des essais avec l’humanité. »
Gaspard Bazin
“I think the best way to look at these programs is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. The less you know, the better.”
“I think the best way to look at these programs is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. The less you know, the better.”