Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.”
Jean-Luc Godard
While The Rolling Stones rehearse ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ in the studio, Godard reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
Commissioned by French television to make a film about the state of solitude, Godard chose instead to make a film about the solitude of a state.
Filmed in the UK in 1969, this documentary by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group represents an analysis of production and the status of women in capitalist society and a speculation about class consciousness and the need for political organization.
“Do you still remember how long ago we trained our thoughts?
Most often we’d start from a dream...
We wondered how, in total darkness
colours of such intensity could emerge within us.
In a soft low voice
Jean-Luc Godard : C'est peut-être la différence entre l'un et l'autre par rapport à l'image. Moi, ce qui me plaît en elle est inaccessible et toi ce serait ce qui te gênerait… Faut-il montrer les choses?
« On a fait un film avec Anne-Marie Mieville sur les établissements Darty, qui s’appelle Le rapport Darty. Il nous avait été commande par Darty. ils nous avaient dit : « On gagne trop d'argent, tout va trop bien, on perd la tête, on ne sait pas ce qui se passe..
« In memoriam small movies.
« Comme le pain quotidien s’approche chaque jour de la bouche, il faudrait que le film rapproche le spectateur de son quotidien profond: aimer, donner la vie, la vivre, faire un enfant. C'est cela que représente Marie : elle est une image… Elle est une image vierge. Pas de traces.
“In Anne-Marie Miéville’s film, little Marie locks herself in her little girl’s mystery – in her books, music, dance – and so refuses to be scarred by what she is going through.
Pierrot escapes his boring environment and decides to travel to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. For a while they live there life, forever on the run.
“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.
“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.”
“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.
« Je veux bien faire des essais avec vous, mais avant, il faut que je fasse des essais avec l’humanité. »
Gaspard Bazin
“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
In 1970, Godard and Miéville went to Jordan to shoot footage of Palestinian militants for what was supposed to become a pro-palestinian film for the Palestine Liberation Organization.
