“My dear President, dear festival director and dear colleagues,
Once again, I thank you for inviting me to the festival, but you know I haven’t taken part in film distribution for a long time, and I’m not where you think I am. Actually, I’m following another path. I’ve been inhabiting other worlds, sometimes for years, or for a few seconds, under the protection of film enthusiasts; I’ve gone and stayed.”
Godard’s letter in motion to Cannes’ Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux