Jean-Luc Godard

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The Image Book
6.2

The Image Book

Oct. 11, 2018

The Image Book

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from ...
Goodbye to Language
5.8

Goodbye to Language

Aug. 15, 2014

Goodbye to Language

A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.
Image Changing: Letter to the beloved
6.2

Image Changing: Letter to the beloved

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, ...
Oh, Woe Is Me
6.1

Oh, Woe Is Me

Sep. 08, 1993

Oh, Woe Is Me

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, ...
Hail Mary
6.4

Hail Mary

Jan. 23, 1985

Hail Mary

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Detective
5.7

Detective

Aug. 23, 1985

Detective

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with ...
First Name: Carmen
6.3

First Name: Carmen

Sep. 04, 1983

First Name: Carmen

The protagonist is Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his ...
How’s It Going?
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How’s It Going?

May. 21, 1976

How’s It Going?

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their ...
Here and Elsewhere
7.1

Here and Elsewhere

Sep. 15, 1976

Here and Elsewhere

„Here is a family of average French people in front of their television. Elsewhere, they are Palestinian fighters filmed before the ...
Tout Va Bien
6.5

Tout Va Bien

Apr. 28, 1972

Tout Va Bien

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Vladimir and Rosa
5.8

Vladimir and Rosa

Apr. 16, 1971

Vladimir and Rosa

Jean-Luc Godard’s and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 ...
Struggle in Italy
5.9

Struggle in Italy

Apr. 29, 1971

Struggle in Italy

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
British Sounds
6.1

British Sounds

May. 21, 1970

British Sounds

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late ’60s British society. ...
Wind from the East
5.8

Wind from the East

Aug. 19, 1970

Wind from the East

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a ...
Sympathy for the Devil
6.2

Sympathy for the Devil

An exhilarating, provocative motion picture. The Rolling Stones rehearse their latest song, „Sympathy For the Devil,“ in a London ...
The Joy of Learning
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The Joy of Learning

Jul. 12, 1969

The Joy of Learning

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path ...
The Oldest Profession
5.4

The Oldest Profession

Apr. 05, 1967

The Oldest Profession

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Far from Vietnam
7.3

Far from Vietnam

Dec. 13, 1967

Far from Vietnam

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the ...
La Chinoise
6.9

La Chinoise

Aug. 30, 1967

La Chinoise

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic ...
Masculin Féminin
7.4

Masculin Féminin

Mar. 22, 1966

Masculin Féminin

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He ...
Made in U.S.A
6.2

Made in U.S.A

Jan. 27, 1967

Made in U.S.A

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel ...
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
6.5

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two ...
Pierrot le Fou
7.4

Pierrot le Fou

Nov. 05, 1965

Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They ...
Six in Paris
6.7

Six in Paris

May. 19, 1965

Six in Paris

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), ...
Alphaville
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Alphaville

May. 05, 1965

Alphaville

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has ...
The Married Woman
7.1

The Married Woman

Dec. 04, 1964

The Married Woman

In an exploration of love and adultery, a woman is conflicted between her husband, her lover and herself.
The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers
5.6

The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan („Fumiko’s Five Benefactors“ by Hiromichi ...
Band of Outsiders
7.6

Band of Outsiders

Aug. 05, 1964

Band of Outsiders

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. ...
Contempt
7.5

Contempt

Oct. 29, 1963

Contempt

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to ...
The Carabineers
6.7

The Carabineers

May. 31, 1963

The Carabineers

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers ...