Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car.
A film about Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute.
In Scénario de Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979), director Jean Luc Godard discusses many of the themes, motifs and film-making practices that would eventually be utilised in the creation of his following film, Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980). Like Sans Titre, Scén
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.
Denise Rimbaud abandons her husband, her job and the city to go and live in the country. Paul Godard, a television producer, is afraid to leave the city, afraid of loneliness since Denise left. Isabelle has left her country home to come to the city as a prostitute.
“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.”
In 1972, newly radicalized Hollywood star Jane Fonda joined forces with cinematic innovator Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin in an unholy artistic alliance that resulted in Tout va bien.
« 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.
